A lawyer acting for businessman Cosmas Mukaratirwa says a criminal case for the alleged supplying of unregistered medicine worth N$650 000 to the government’s Central Medical Stores in 2019 against him has been withdrawn.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Zimbabwean businessman Cosmas Mukaratirwa, the father of the five-year-old whose company initially won a N$1,3 billion medical tender, after he failed to appear in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday on another matter.
Former fisheries and marine resources minister Bernhard Esau and one of his co-accused in the Fishrot fishing quotas fraud, corruption and racketeering case, Nigel van Wyk, are due to hear in two weeks’ time if they have had success with their latest application to be granted bail.
The Supreme Court is considering its judgement on an appeal by two senior South African lawyers found guilty of offences under the Immigration Control Act after they travelled to Namibia to represent six of the men charged in the Fishrot corruption case.
The state has summoned Cosmas Mukaratirwa, the father of a five-year-old child who has been awarded a pharmaceutical supply tender worth N$1,3 billion, to appear in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on 5 December.