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CAPE TOWN – The mystery surrounding the execution of a Botswana woman named Lesedi Molapisi by Bangladeshi authorities for smuggling 3 kilograms of heroin into the country continues, but her father says she is alive , is awaiting trial, according to the latest information from family sources.
intraocular lens Botswana’s and Bangladesh’s foreign ministries have been contacted, but none have responded to whether Morapisi was indeed executed last week, as Bangladeshi authorities previously claimed.
Botswana national from Ramotswa, Botswana arrested at Bangladesh’s largest and main airportHazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) had more than 3kg of heroin in his luggage on a flight from Johannesburg, South Africa via Doha in January this year. She denied knowing there were drugs in her bag.
After scanning her bag, Bangladeshi customs officials seized more than 3kg of a heroin-like granular substance.
Lesedi Molapisi’s father told South African television news channel Newsroom Afrika that he was in contact with his daughter’s lawyer in Bangladesh.
Morapisi reportedly said he managed to find a letter in his daughter’s luggage in Botswana written by a travel company in Pretoria to the Bangladeshi government requesting a business visa for Lesedi , so that she can buy off-the-shelf. – Apparel products made in Bangladesh.
According to the letter he read, the travel agency offered to assist Lesedi in sourcing ready-made clothes and providing her with accommodation in Bangladesh.
“It suggested that she might have been lured because they promised to help her go to Bangladesh to buy ready-made clothes so that she could resell them here in Botswana. That’s when she went to Bangladesh and she was arrested for so-called illegal drugs,” he said. Say.
He said he had no contact with his daughter so it was difficult to ask her what happened and he had been obtaining information through a Bangladeshi lawyer.
He told the TV channel that he was contacting his daughter through an intermediary contracted by an African association in Bangladesh to assist her.
“The trial hasn’t started yet, that’s all I know. The last communication I had with her through these notes was last week. She appeared in court on November 14th, for reference, not trial,” her father told Newzroom Afrika.
Bangladesh has taken a tough line on anti-drug laws.
The Control of Narcotics Act 2018, which came into effect on 27 December 2018, provides for the death penalty or life imprisonment for anyone convicted of a range of drug offences.
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