Newsletter| Former NPA boss Shaun Abrahams has found a new job – and it’s in Botswana. Abrahams is now the lead prosecutor heading a multimillion-pula corruption case in South Africa’s neighbouring country
Former NPA head sets up as lead prosecutor in major politically charged corruption case
City Press has learnt that he was appointed two months ago after being approached to lead the prosecution team in a politically charged case involving supposed allies of former Botswana president Ian Khama, who are alleged to have looted 250 million pula from that country’s National Petroleum Fund. Abrahams’ handling of matters relating to former president Jacob Zuma was criticised by a full bench of the Pretoria High Court in 2017, which found that his appointment was unlawful and set it aside.
In Botswana, Abrahams appeared for the state for the first time on Thursday before the Broadhurst Magistrates’ Court in Gaborone, where the accused parties in the matter were demanding that the state reveal further particulars about the case they were facing. However, Masisi’s supporters say he is a corruption buster and has identified this case as his administration’s first “trophy” in the fight against corruption, and that he has vowed to throw everything at the accused in the National Petroleum Fund.
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