Kerekang faces suspension

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One of the three accused in the money laundering scandal, Kenneth Kerekang is likely to be suspended from office. Kerekang is an executive director of newly established Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority (BERA).

He is one of the four full time Board members in an eight-member board, which has the chief executive officer (CEO) as an ex officio member.

Kerekang, formerly a director at the Department of Energy in the Ministry of Minerals and Energy together with Bakang Seretse, who resigned his post as managing director of Kgori Capital and Botho Leburu, a director at Khulaco Management Services are on bail in a money laundering case allegedly involving P250 million that was transferred to the Directorate of Intelligence and Security for construction of fuel storage tanks, before being diverted for alleged purchase of military hardware in Israel.

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