Watchdog seeks protection from ‘spy boss threats’
Setlhomamaru Dintwe says the State Security Agency’s Arthur Fraser has attempted to block Dintwe’s investigation into Fraser, allegedly unlawfully
The inspector-general of intelligence has accused State Security Agency director-general Arthur Fraser of threatening him and trying to block an investigation into “serious” allegations against the spy boss. Dr Setlhomamaru Dintwe said on Wednesday that Fraser had launched unlawful attempts to block his investigation‚ forcing him to go to court to seek urgent legal protection. “The director-general has threatened and intimidated me on more than one occasion‚” he said in a statement. Fraser was implicated in the alleged mismanagement of state security funds in The President’s Keepers, a book by Jacques Pauw. The book claimed that a huge sum of taxpayers’ money was wasted on a project headed by Fraser. Fraser has dismissed the allegations. “In a desperate attempt to bring an end to my investigation into the allegations against him‚ the director-general has sought to revoke my security clearance,” Dintwe said. There was “no lawful reason or basis” for the revocation, the purpose of whi...
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