Lesotho’s Asset Recovery Unit Shut Down After Implicating Top Officials

The task team had begun exposing questionable state land allocations and widespread corruption

• Lesotho’s asset recovery unit has been disbanded as “not properly gazetted”.
• The unit’s shut down comes a month after it revealed irregular land allocations to senior officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Nthomeng Majara, former ministers and judges.
• The unit also found 97 of 1,601 government plots were transferred to private individuals under suspicious circumstances, and only 987 of 1,579…