Blow to state as some documentary evidence in Nulane trial ruled inadmissible

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The state's case in the Nulane R24.9m fraud and money laundering case suffered a blow when acting judge Nompumelelo Gusha ruled most of the documentary evidence submitted by the state was inadmissible.

The documents Gusha admitted as evidence despite being copies included the deviation memo that saw accused Iqbal Sharma's company score a R12m payment. This was because the author of the document, Shadrack Cezula, had testified in court and authenticated them.This is the first high-profile state capture case and is related to

an alleged corrupt tender in which money was paid to Nulane Investments to conduct a feasibility study for the Free State’s Mohoma Mobung project, on the basis that Nulane had unique skills to perform the work. The state alleges Nulane had no employees on its books and subcontracted Deloitte to produce the report, for which it was paid R1.5m.

The feasibility study tender was given to Iqbal Sharma's company, Nulane. It’s alleged that the only change made to the Deloitte report was to identify Paras dairy, a company in India, as a suitable implementing partner for the development of a milk processing plant in Vrede.Peter Thabethe, former head of the Free State department of rural development;Seipati Dhlamini, former provincial agriculture CFO;Islandsite director Ronica Ragavan.

 

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