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Former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi. (Fake images)
- Another arrest warrant has been issued for former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi.
- Agrizzi did not appear in the Johannesburg Commercial Crimes Court along with his former ANC MP Vincent Smith on Thursday.
- The matter was postponed to March.
Another arrest warrant, which will not be executed until his next scheduled court appearance, was issued against former Bosasa COO turned whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi.
This after Agrizzi failed to appear in the Palm Ridge Commercial Crimes Court along with his former ANC MP Vincent Smith on Thursday.
Sindisiwe Twala, a spokesperson for the National Tax Authority’s Investigation Directorate, said Agrizzi was not in court because “he is still in the intensive care unit.
He said Agrizzi’s attorney, Mannie Witz, had requested that the arrest warrant be transferred until the next appearance.
Meanwhile, prosecutor Peter Serunye told the court that the state has received the guarantees of the Italian property owned by Agrizzi.
The couple was charged with corruption, while Smith faces additional charges of fraud for alleged payments made to his company, Euroblitz, in 2015 and 2016.
The State alleges that the payments were made to Smith to silence his opposition to Bosasa during the parliamentary committee meetings. Smith has pleaded not guilty and maintains that the money was a loan from Agrizzi, which Agrizzi denies.
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The matter was postponed until March 9, 2021.
Agrizzi suffered a heart attack in hospital on October 21. When his condition worsened, he was transferred to a private facility. The heart attack occurred a week after the Commercial Crimes Court denied Agrizzi bail for allegedly making payments to Smith.
This decision was later reversed and the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg granted him bail.
Last week, Agrizzi received a court order after he failed to appear along with his co-defendant in another matter involving a decade-long Special Investigation Unit report delivered to the NPA in 2009. The report found an incorrect and corrupt relationship existed. between Bosasa, former Correctional Services CFO Patrick Gillingham and former Corrections Commissioner Linda Mti, News24 previously reported.
In exchange for cars, houses, cash, flights and vacations, among other gifts, Gillingham and Mti allegedly colluded with Bosasa executives to ensure the company won four lucrative bids from the Department of Correctional Services between 2004 and 2007 valued at more than 1.8 billion rand. .
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The two, along with former Bosasa CFO Andries van Tonder, appeared in the dock and the case was postponed until February 18 to give the defense more time to study the file.
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