Gagash, wife case postponed as more charges are added
The state added more charges when the bail hearing resumed in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court.
The bail hearing for two fraud suspects, a Police officer, Peter "Gagash" Nonyane and his wife, Charlotte Tibana, a lawyer, has been postponed until the following Friday in Polokwane Magistrates’ Court. Defense counsel, Hlawu Maluleke, requested the delay to speak with his clients. Nonyane and Tibana now face 35 charges of fraud, money laundering and corruption.
The additional charges were brought about after the family of late Lawrence Kove filed a complaint. Allegedly, the couple defrauded the Masha, Mathabatha, Maswanganyi, Moetji and Kove families' estates of over R4 million. State prosecutor, Martin Molokwane, detailed the charges: "It is derived from the main charges of fraud that the state added or joined yesterday on the 26th of August.
Count number 15 is also a charge of money laundering in respect of accused number one and two relating to or derived from the main charge of fraud that was added yesterday. Count 16 to 21 are only in respect of accused number one and that is money laundering."
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