Trial date set for suspected CMS mastermind

Before Barnabas Nyamadzabo, the Gaborone chief magistrate,  Lokwae and state counsel, Merapelo Mokgosi confirmed December 13-17 as the trial dates. Lokwae was initially charged with 11 other men but he disappeared before he could be tried. During the two years he was on the run the case against the other suspects continued and is nearing completion. When Lokwae surrendered to the police, early this year, he was charged with two counts of fraud involving a sum of P7,269,429.80. 

The state alleged that Lokwae and others, not before court, defrauded the government of Botswana the sum of P3,797,300.42 as payment for pharmaceutical drugs that were never delivered by Mogoaduba Holdings.  On another count, the suspect, together with others not before court are alleged to have defrauded the government by claiming that they sold and delivered drugs worth P3,472,129.40.