Moroadi Cholota’s urgent court bid to
The Free State High Court has dismissed former premier Ace Magashule’s assistant Moroadi Cholota’s urgent application to declare her arrest unlawful and for the fraud and corruption charges dropped.
The application was heard on Monday, 26 August and the charges are in relation to the infamous R255 million asbestos scandal in Free State. Cholota who was extradited from the United States earlier this month was released on R2500 bail on 15 August.
MOROADI CHOLOTA WANTED COURT TO WITHDRAW FRAUD AND CORRUPTION CHARGES
Cholota is accused of fraud and corruption, among other charges, alongside her former boss Magashule, infamous businessman Edwin Sodi and others, such as:
- Thabane Zulu, former director-general of national Department of Human Settlements
- Nthimotse Mokhesi
- Mahlomola Matlakala
- Sello Radebe
- Adel Kgotso Manyeki
- Nozipho Molikoe
- Albertus Venter
- Margaret-Ann Diedericks, former head of Gauteng’s human settlements department
- Olly Mlamleli, former MEC and Mangaung mayor
Judge Mareena Opperman ruled that Cholota’s application to enrol the matter as one of urgency was dismissed with costs and added that the reasons for her order would follow in due course, TimesLIVE reported.
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