SUSPENDED ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule’s lawyer Laurance Hodes has dismissed claims that the former premier’s personal assistant Moroadi Cholota has turned a State witness in the Bloemfontein High Court on Wednesday where Magashule and ten others appeared on multiple charges relating to the R255 million failed asbestos project.
Magashule and his 10 co-accused, including controversial businessman Edwin Sodi, and five other companies appeared briefly in the Free State High Court for a pre-trial hearing before Judge President Cagney Musi.
The accused have been charged with fraud, corruption, theft and money laundering, among other charges, relating to a R255-million contract for the assessment and removal of asbestos roofs.
They are facing more than 70 charges which included corruption, fraud, money laundering in contravention of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, Prevention of Organised Crime Act, as well as contravention of the Public Finance Management Act.
Hodes told the Bloemfontein
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