Court slams ‘indefinite’ Kgosi property freeze

The State has been accused of turning a court order meant to preserve the late Isaac Kgosi’s Kgosi’s property into a punishment, with the High Court describing the prolonged restraint of the ex- intelligence chief’s assets as an abuse of the law.

In a damning judgment delivered in Gaborone this week, Justice Mojapelo ordered the State to release property belonging to Kgosi, who died in August 2024. Mojapelo found out that authorities had failed to bring their investigations to finality despite having restrained his assets for almost seven years. The court also ordered the respondents to pay costs on an attorney-and-client scale. Justice Mojapelo said the investigations into Kgosi had started around 2011 or 2012, yet the State only obtained an ex parte order restraining his property in July 2019.