Longrich swindled Batswana of millions

The owners of Chinese company, Longrich are investigating Elinah Tai, who was their Botswana consultant following a scandal in which she swindled Batswana of millions of pula in the company’s name.

Mmegi has learnt that the Chinese have decided to hire private investigators in a bid to clear the name of their multi-million dollar business, which has been in existence for 30 years.

According to one of the victims (Marea*), the Chinese took the matter very seriously to an extent that they froze Botswana operations and have summoned Elinah and her supervisor Jeff Ho-Ming, who was the general manager for Southern Africa, to China. Only Jeff  showed up and resigned immediately while Elinah was a no show.

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