Prosecutor general Martha Imalwa has responded to articles published in the New Era and The Namibian about the trial of a Chinese businessman, Hou Xue Cheng, and his Namibian co-accused Hamutenja Hamutenya, whose cases were struck from the court roll recently. The reason the charges on dealing in controlled wildlife products were dismissed was that neither the witnesses nor the docket was before the court. According to the PG, the information contained in the articles was incorrect. She explained that a special backlog court was set up to redress the backlog in the regional court, and a magistrate and prosecutor were identified and dedicated to running the special regional court. As a result, she said, all the old criminal cases were transferred to the special court, and the dockets and charge sheets had to be transferred between the courts.