Details of how scores of Batswana lost millions of Pula to Ecoplexus will be made public soon as the issue has been referred to the High Court.
This emerges in correspondences between the Ministry of Finance and the victims who had appealed to the Ministry and the Office of the President to intervene. This was after the victims’ efforts to convince the Bank of Botswana (BoB) to suspend First National Bank of Botswana (FNBB)’s licensee did not bear fruits.
In a letter dated 24th November addressed to Ecoplexus scam victims, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Olesitse Masimega stated that: “The Ministry has considered your letters of appeal requesting for intervention of the Office of the President and Ministry of Finance.”
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