Modisane has been suspended from work since July last year in connection with the matter, The Monitor has learnt. His alleged accomplice include a Molepolole Indian man, Deshmuck Khan, who is charged to have posed as the landowner. The case also involves real estate company, Lesedi Associates & Company, which allegedly posed as the plot owner's agent.Court documents reveal that the estate agents as well as their four directors and four shareholders also face the suit.
Interestingly, Rahim Khan, the law firm that carried out the 'botched' transaction on behalf of the Chinese man, Jin Lu, has filed the land fraud suit.Lu only suspected that he may have been sold a fraudulently-acquired plot when the real owner of the plot halted the construction of his P400,000 building.Sir Seretse Khama Airport Police Station stepped in and arrested seven suspects for forgery of the plot's title deed.On Saturday a Rahim Khan lawyer, Dorothy Matiza could not be drawn into confirming or denying that police also interrogated them in their investigations.
