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SERETSE, KGOSI WANT NPF CHARGES STRUCK OUT
Extension 2 Chief Magistrate Kamogelo Mmelesi has reserved ruling in a case in which businessman Bakang Seretse and former Directorate of Intelligence and Security boss Isaac Kgosi want the court to set aside corruption charges against them in the 250 million National Petroleum Fund scandal.
Seretse, former Director of Energy in the Ministry of Minerals Kenneth Kerekang and others had applied to the High Court for the corruption charges against them to be quashed; saying the prosecution failed to disclose the specific offences they allegedly committed.
The State opposed the application, but the Magistrate refused to entertain the application on grounds that the State had failed to file its opposition papers timeously.
The defence brought the Magistrate's attention to the judgment of the High Court in which Kebonang brothers were discharged and acquitted.
The twin brothers had approached the High Court praying that the corruption charges leveled against them be quashed and the court ruled in their favour.
Chief Magistrate Mmelesi is set to deliver a ruling on the matter on December 3.
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