Lesotho: Ex-commissioner of refugees guilty of fraud
Published: 19/Aug/2015
Source: Lesotho Times
By Tefo Tefo
FORMER Commissioner of Refugees in the Ministry of Home Affairs Francis Tlhopheho Sefali will spend 10 years behind bars if he fails to pay a M20 000 fine imposed by the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday this week.
Sefali was slapped with the hefty sentence after being convicted of fraudulently facilitating the acquisition of a Lesotho passport for Ethiopian Eyob Asemie in 2003.
He first appeared before the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on 6 March 2013 accused of writing in the Ministry of Home Affairs records that Asemie had come to Lesotho in 2003, when he had arrived in 2005.
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