Press liaison Michaela Fritz-Meinus said “due to the German tax secrecy (para. Lesotho Express heard allegations that there too Frazer Solar GmbH has not been heard from in two years. Our next stop was the Bundeszentralamt für Steuern – an authority that administers and collects taxes on behalf of municipalities, federal state and federal government. Its website says Robert Frazer was based in Lesotho for the duration of the development of the project there and participated in weekly aid distributions over the course of 20. The company says its registered offices in Berlin are at Bruno-Bürgel-Weg 142-144, 12439, but neither the company nor its director Robert Frazer or any representative can be found there. Frazer has a website that features projects in only two countries, Lesotho and ESwatini. The company says Lesotho failed to engage in arbitration and didn’t respond to demands, so it scored a default judgment in South Africa, in which it was awarded 850 million rand in damages.īut in Berlin the company doesn’t exist physically or regulatorily.
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The company says the German government agreed to finance the program, but the Lesotho ministry of finance failed to execute the project’s financial arrangement.įrazer began legal action against the kingdom in 2019 after what it said were a series of contractual breaches. BERLIN, Germany – KFW-Ipex Bank, the financial institution that Frazer Solar GmbH says agreed to fund a Lesotho energy project for €100million, says it never made that undertaking and the bank doesn’t have any agreement involving Frazer Solar GmbH.įrazer has been awarded 850 million maloti (€50million) in damages by an arbitration process in South Africa, after it claimed that it signed an agreement that gave it a contract with Lesotho during the tenure of former prime minister Tom Thabane.īut Berlin says it never approved the €100 million that company, now terrorising Lesotho in South African courts, claims is the basis for its attempted seizure of the kingdom’s assets, and it allegedly hasn’t paid tax in Germany for two years.įrazer claims that it signed the agreement in 2018 with Lesotho to provide 40 000 solar water-heating systems, 20 megawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity, 1 million LED lights and 350 000 solar lanterns.