Copper trader hits back at police :: Mmegi Online

A local copper trader, entangled in a legal battle with the police after the seizure of P100,000 worth of the metal and subsequent investigations into his company, has challenged law enforcement to substantiate their allegations with evidence.

Sometime in June 2014, police seized Mehakar Singh’s copper on suspicion that it was illegally procured. The police believe Singh’s company is part of a big syndicate dealing with illegal stripping and trading of copper wires, which is later, sold in South Africa. The seized copper was believed to be from the two largest owners of copper wires in the country, the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) and the Botswana Telecommunications Corporation Limited (BTCL).

The trader, in his latest submissions in the case, said the police were on a witch-hunt because no proof had been provided that the people he named as his sources of the copper were non-existent or dead.

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