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 companys 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.

Editor's Comment
BPF should get house in order

Speaker of the National Assembly, Dithapelo Keorapetse, has this week rightly washed his hands of the mess, refusing to wade into a party squabble that has no clear leadership and no single version of the truth.When a single party sends six different letters to the Speaker’s office, each claiming to be the authoritative voice, it is not just confusion, but an embarrassment.Keorapetse is correct to insist on institutional boundaries. Parliament...

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