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The R1.8 billion Bosasa fraud case is back in court on Monday.
Former chief operating Angelo Agrizzi and his co-accused who include former correctional services commissioner Linda Mti and the department’s former chief financial Patrick Gillingham are facing a string of graft charges.
This in connection with a handful of dodgy prison tenders Bosasa and its subsidiaries scooped between 2004 and 2007 to provide catering, training, television systems and monitoring equipment as well as to install CCTV cameras and perimeter fencing.
The case is set to come before the Pretoria High Court for the first time on Monday after it was transferred from the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in March.
It was postponed for pre-trial proceedings.
But Agrizzi hasn’t appeared in court since 2020, owing to his apparent ill-health.
Last year, the State indicated it wanted to appoint a
The results of those tests will be placed before the court as part of a process to determine whether Agrizzi is fit to stand trial.
Former Bosasa chief operations officer Angelo Agrizzi’s case is back in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Palm Ridge on Wednesday.
In 2020, Agrizzi was arrested alongside former African National Congress(ANC) MP Vincent Smith on a raft of fraud and corruption charges.
This is in connection with allegations that smith received massive kickbacks from Agrizzi, acting on behalf of Bosasa , in exchange for his political influence and protection.
Their cases have since been separated, though, because of Agrizzi’s ill health and his repeated no-shows at court, and the resultant delays.
The last time the case was before the court in April, Agrizzi’s legal team had been expected to move an application to have the magistrate rule it was being delayed unreasonably.
This is after the State last year indicated that it wanted to appoint its own physician to examine Agrizzi but then took several months to do.
The State has now acquired the services of an independent pulmonologist, though, and Agrizzi’s team ultimately abandoned the application.
The court is on Wednesday expected to determine a high court date for the matter.
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