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I feel used – ‘Butterfly’ lead investigator

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“I am the sole sacrificial lamb,” this is how Jako Hubona, the lead investigator in the alleged P100 billion looting case describes himself in a leaked secret document. It took four long years since the dramatic arrest of the alleged main player codenamed ‘Butterfly’, real name Wilhelmina Maswabi’s charges to be dropped. Now Mmegi Staffer SHARON MATHALA reports on the leaked secret letter addressed to President Mokgweetsi Masisi

About four years ago, (October 17, 2019), Maswabi, the Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) agent, was dramatically arrested for allegedly financing terrorism, possession of unexplained property, and false declaration of a passport. Maswabi’s case was linked to then DIS Director-General (DG) Isaac Kgosi and former president, Ian Khama.

Now in this leaked report from the Office of the President, the lead investigator in the controversial P100 billion case, Jako Hubona, who has since been left in the cold, feels strongly that he was ‘used by the State’.

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