09 Jun 2020

The office of the director at the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has refuted media allegations that it has fired Advocate Shaun Abrahams. He is the prosecutor in the National Petroleum Fund (NPF) case.

In a statement, the DPP says it has been brought to the attention of the office of its director that The Business Weekly & Review in their last edition dated June 5–11 2020 carried an article with a misleading headline to the effect that the State (in this case the DPP) has fired Advocate Shaun Abrahams, prosecutor in the National Petroleum Fund (NPF) case and paid him what the paper calls the “P17 million handshake.”

The DPP says the fact of the matter is that the DPP’s office has not parted ways with Advocate Abrahams nor paid him the so-called handshake, and thus takes a dim view of such palpable falsehood which are no doubt calculated to mislead Batswana and other readers.

To this end, “we urge the said paper and all other media houses to always verify their stories prior to publishing them as they may be detrimental to the business and image of the directorate,” says the DPP statement. Ends