FORMER mineral resources minister and chairperson of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport, Mosebenzi Zwane, has been granted bail of R10 000 following his arrest on corruption charges related to the controversial dairy farm project.
Zwane briefly appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday morning after handing himself over to the police along with former Gupta employees, Ugeshni Govender and Ronica Ragavan.
Govender was also granted bail of R10 000.
During his bail application, Zwane’s lawyer said the ANC MP was not a flight risk and requested that he be released on bail of R10 000.
Zwane’s lawyer also informed the court that his client intended to plead not guilty to the charges against him.
Zwane and his co-accused faces charges of fraud, theft, money laundering and corruption in connection with the Estina dairy farm project in the Free State, where more than R200 million of public funds that were
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