Hlakudi wants fraud case struck off roll Kgomotso Medupe France Hlakudi.
FORMER Eskom senior manager France Hlakudi, who is charged with fraud and tax offences amounting to more than R30 million, appeared in the Pretoria Magistrates Court yesterday.
But the matter was postponed to 22 April by Magistrate Adriaan Bekker, to allow time to hand down judgment on the application brought by the defence for the striking off the roll of the charges.
According to the Investigate Directorate spokeswoman, Sindisiwe Twala, Hlakudi’s team argued the fraud charges should not be applicable in this matter and should be struck off before the matter proceeds to trial.
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Former Eskom executive France Hlakudi wants R30m tax evasion case struck off roll
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Cape Town â Former Eskom senior manager France Hlakudiâs tax matter was postponed to April 22 by the Pretoria Regional Court today.
This was to allow the magistrate, Adriaan Bekker, to hand down judgment on the application brought by the defence for the striking off of the fraud charges in the R30 million tax evasion matter, the Hawks reported on Wednesday. Hlakudi was Eskom Kusile Power Station senior manager for capital contracts.
ââHlakudiâs team argued that the fraud charges should not be applicable in this matter and should be struck off before the matter proceeds to trial.
Former Eskom manager asks for fraud charges to be removed
A former Eskom senior manager wants the court to strike the tax fraud charges he is facing in from the court roll.
Former Eskom senior manager, France Hlakudi, who is facing corruption charges related to the R745 million Kusile project argued in court on Wednesday that his tax fraud charges be removed from his additional tax evasion case.
Hlakudi’s attorney, Pieter Coetzee, argued in the Pretoria Regional Court before magistrate Adriaan Bekker, that the fraud charges should not be applicable in the matter and should be struck off the roll before the case proceeded to trial.
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