Namibia: Lameck Trial Focus On Truck Deal

A TRUCK purchase in which a Swapo-owned company was allegedly defrauded took centre stage as the first prosecution witness started to testify in the fraud and corruption trial of former Public Service Commissioner Teckla Lameck and two co-accused yesterday.

Through the testimony given by an employee of the Swapo-owned Kalahari Holdings, Etuna Nashima, before Acting Judge Maphios Cheda in the High Court in Windhoek, a paper trail has emerged of a transaction in which a subsidiary company of Kalahari Holdings, Namib Contract Haulage (NCH), bought eight trucks and 12 buses from a Chinese company in 2006.

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