Namibia: VAC wants Bipa officials to be charged

The Anti-Corruption Commission wants the officials of the Authority for Business and Intellectual Property to be involved in an N $ 18 million deal.

The Authority for Business and Intellectual Property (BIPA) the agency that registers and manages the names of companies, bought the Windhoek property of 4.6 million Namibian dollars which was once a bar for 18 million Namibian dollars.

Tileinge Andima, Managing Director of BIPA, Gabriel Sinimbo, Commercial Secretary General and Phillip Namundjebo, Acting Director General of the ODC.

VAC opened an investigation last year and has since submitted the findings with recommendations to prosecute the people involved.

Erna van der Merwe, Deputy Director of ACC, told The Namibian this week that she forwarded her recommendations to the Attorney General's office on July 4, 2018.

Attorney General Martha Imalwa stated that she was not at the office last week, but that she I'm not getting anything. However, she said that they would start to look at the case once they would receive the documents.

Although Van der Merwe could not say what are the exact charges or recommendations, one person advised that VAC recommended that the officials involved

"CAC not send no role to the Attorney General if he does not have such a recommendation, "said yesterday the head of the Ministry of Justice. March this year to allow an independent investigation into the purchase of the property.

Andima, who has maintained her innocence in the past, declined to comment on the case yesterday.

The High Court also froze the bank account to the Minister of Finance, Calle Schlettwein, told the observer from Windhoek last year that he had asked the Ministry of Commerce to overturn the transaction, and was pleased that the court ruled In any case,

"However, what remains to be done, is how to bring all those involved.This will be the next step of this investigation", said Schlettwein at the weekly

. It is alleged that the agreement on the purchase of the building was made without approval of the council or the minister, which resulted in the suspension of Andima.

The dam allegedly belonged to Hilma and Martin Shilengudwa, two couples from Windhoek, whom Andima admitted to having known, but denied having benefited unduly from their relationship.

The waste of public funds in the purchase of an old building by Bipa bosses complain about not having money to scan the registration and presentation of documents from the # 39; company.

Namibia reported last year that the business registration documents of the Ministry of Commerce still took too much time, sometimes up to two weeks. promised by President Hage Geingob that the process would be improved.

* Additional report Shinovene Immanuel