Former Lesotho PM Paid Killers $24,000 To Murder Estranged Wife ― Police | Sahara Reporters The police commissioner said the couple had promised to pay the killers the equivalent of $179,485, which was to be paid in instalments READ MORE:
Lesotho’s former Prime Minister , Thomas Thabane, and his wife paid assassins a down payment of $24,000 to kill his estranged wife Lipolelo three years ago, according to a police affidavit seen on Wednesday.
The former Lesotho PM, Thabane and his then-wife, Lipolelo Thabane, 58, were in the middle of a bitter divorce when she was shot and killed outside her home two days before her husband’s 2017 inauguration. In an affidavit filed on Tuesday but seen by AFP on Wednesday, Lesotho’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Paseka Mokete, said the former PM, Thabane, and his wife, Maesaiah “wanted the deceased dead so that …could assume the position of First Lady”.
Initial payments totalling 400,000 maloti were made after Lipolelo’s assassination on 14 June 2017, police said. A first attempt to kill Lipolelo failed on 12 June 2017, police said.
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