DCEC takes Sunday Standard to court

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The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crimes (DCEC) is heading to the Lobatse High Court this morning to seek an order to stop the Sunday Standard newspaper from publishing any stories about its investigations on Isaac Kgosi. The latter is Director General of the Intelligence and Security Services (DIS).

In an urgent application through the Attorney General, DCEC seeks to interdict the newspaper and its editor Outsa Mokone or “any other persons who may have access through them from publishing, distributing or disseminating information, material, excerpts or any other contents of docket DOC/IF/2011/01166”.

The papers further say that the DCEC is seeking to order “The Respondents or any other persons having access through them to return to the Applicant all tapes, documents, material, information emanating from docket DOC/IF/IF/2011/0116 within 24 hours from the date of the order; that any opposing respondent to the application be ordered to pay costs of the application”.

Editor's Comment
Closure as pain lingers

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