{"id":237674,"date":"2026-06-28T18:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-dpp-dismisses-p100-billion-bank-of-botswana-theft-allegations\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T18:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T16:09:04","slug":"botswana-dpp-dismisses-p100-billion-bank-of-botswana-theft-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-dpp-dismisses-p100-billion-bank-of-botswana-theft-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: DPP Dismisses P100 Billion Bank of Botswana Theft Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Gaborone \u2014 Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) director has formally recognised the total lack of evidence in the P100 billion &#8216;Butterfly&#8217; case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">&#8220;There is no evidence at all, and I think once we make this admission, we will be able to face the pitiless logic of facts to say, what do we do with it going forward. We need to end this appearing before the Public Accounts Committee on Monday,&#8221; said Mr Kgosietsile Ngakaagae<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Upon assuming the role of DPP, he said he followed up the issue and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606240033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) director has formally recognised the total lack of evidence in the P100 billion &#8216;Butterfly&#8217; case. &#8220;There is no evidence at all, and I think once we make this admission, we will be able to face the pitiless logic of facts to say, what do we do with it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,8577,7089,6495,4718,2462,12843,8840,257,13075,254,9201],"class_list":["post-237674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-bank","tag-billion","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-dismisses","tag-dpp","tag-news","tag-p100","tag-south-africa-today","tag-theft"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}