Kgori Capital Challenges DPP Powers

DPP office.PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
DPP office.PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Kgori Capital (Proprietary) Limited says the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) does not have the powers to make civil penalties for forfeiture of property subject to a preservation of property order.

This comes after the DPP made an application for restraining and forfeiture Orders in terms of Sections 39 and 11 of the Proceeds and Instruments of Crime Act. This is in relation to credit amount of P9, 081,382.15 standing to the credit of call account held by Kgori Capital with Stanbic Bank Botswana.

The DPP later made an application for a civil penalty order in terms of the Proceeds and Instruments of Crime Act.

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