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National Prosecuting Authority head office in Pretoria.
The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Investigating Directorate is confident that the first state capture-related case will be re-enrolled in due course.
This year saw the NPA fighting to reinstate the R24.9m Gupta- linked Nulane fraud and money laundering case against eight accused, including two companies. This followed the Free State High Court Judge, Nompumelelo Gusha, delivering a scathing judgment which led to the discharge of the accused.
BREAKING NEWS | The Pretoria High Court has granted the NPA’s Asset Forfeiture Unit a preservation order valued at more than R12.1 million, targeting movable and immovable properties belonging to individuals directly or indirectly linked to members of a zama zama syndicate. Those… pic.twitter.com/M1jiEgUNDS
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This year, the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the Free State High Court decision which acquitted them. It ordered a re-trial under a different judge.
Legal analyst, Dikeledi Sinakhomo, says new evidence and witnesses may be brought at the new trial.
WATCH | NPA Head Advocate Shamila Batohi says regarding the Gupta extradition matter, “We are still trying to understand why we lost that extradition case.” pic.twitter.com/hD0arrpUyW
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“It means that the case is going to start with all the documents that were presented to the state and to the legal representatives, when this case started. They are going to use the very same documents that they had and they are still allowed, with an agreement between the state and the NPA, to bring the new documents, which have new evidence. They are allowed to do so per agreement between the two parties,” she adds.
VIDEO | NPA Confident that state capture case will be reinstated
