JOHANNESBURG - Former Crime Intelligence head Richard Mdluli’s corruption case has been dragging on for more than a decade – really. And the State has now launched a bid to force the start of the trial, arguing in papers before the Pretoria High Court that “justice delayed is justice denied”.
Mdluli and his co-accused, former supply chain manager, Heine Barnard, and erstwhile chief financial officer, Solomon Lazarus, are facing charges of corruption, fraud and theft. In addition, Barnard has been charged with defeating the administration of justice. Less than three months after that appearance, the charges were dropped by then-head of the National Prosecuting Authority ’s Special Commercial Crimes Unit, Lawrence Mrwebi, on the back of representations from Mdluli.
McLean’s affidavit reveals how the State has been trying to set the matter down for trial since late 2020 when an email was dispatched to the defence proposing that proceedings kick off in May 2021. To date, none of the applications have actually been filed and the State is still awaiting the memorandum in question.
In January, the SAPS denied the application, stating that "after perusal of the documents attached to the application, [their] office is of the view that the charges preferred against [his] client could not have been done in the execution of his duties, and thus it is not in the interest of the State nor the public interest, to provide legal representation at state cost to [his] client".
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