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The Gauteng North High Court in Pretoria on Monday postponed the tax fraud case against former Eskom manager France Hlakudi to 2 June to allow him consultation with his new legal representative.
Hlakudi, a former Eskom senior manager for capital contracts, is facing 44 fraud and tax evasion-related charge amounting to R30 million. The charges related to Hlakudi s personal tax affairs and his companies Hlakudi Translation and Interpretation, Coxinel Chicken and Bon Services Telcom, where he is accused deliberately misrepresenting his income tax returns.
The cases of false tax submissions were committed between 2015 and 2018. Last Month Hlakudi failed in his bid to have the tax fraud charges struck off the roll.
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A restraint order on assets amounting to R1.4 billion belonging to former Eskom executives and Tubular Construction Projects contractors was executed in various provinces on Tuesday morning.
The Citizen reports according to Sindisiwe Seboka, spokesperson for the National Prosecution Authorityâs Investigating Directorate (ID), the order was awarded by the Gauteng North High Court in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crimes Act.
The order was served on:
Former Eskom senior manager for Capital Contracts, France Hlakudi,
Former Eskom group executive for Group Capital, Abram Masango,
Former Tubular Construction Projects CEO, Antonio Trindade,
Court sentences Nigerian who kidnapped girl, fed her drugs and kept her as a sex slave
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A Nigerian national who kidnapped a young girl, fed her drugs and forced her to have sex with up to six men a day over a three-month period has been sentenced in the Gauteng North High Court.
The National Prosecuting Authority said Augustine Omini Obono was charged with human trafficking, rape, statutory rape and sexual exploitation.
NPA spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana said Obono was also found guilty of kidnapping and keeping a brothel.
Mahanjana said in September 2016, the girl was at a park in Derdepoort for a picnic with her friends when she met a woman who asked her to accompany her to a flat in Sunnyside, Pretoria, where she would meet a man.