Hoax e-mail saga case postponed
Software salesman Muziwendoda Kunene and the NIA’s manager for electronic surveillance Funokwakhe Madladla stand accused of fraud relating to the hoax e-mails.
On Monday the court granted a postponement to September 1 for the State to draw up a final charge sheet. During the next appearance the trial date would be set.
According to the initial charge sheet Kunene supplied "intercepted e-mails" to Madladla who had to take them to higher-ups in the agency.
Kunene was employed or contracted by the NIA to intercept e-mails and other electronic communication, for which he was paid R152,000.
He handed several documents that he claimed to be intercepted e-mails and electronic communications to Madladla.
It was later found that these documents were fabricated and did not originate from the parties purported to have written them.
The e-mails implicated senior ANC members in a conspiracy against the party’s deputy president Jacob Zuma, and secretary-general Kgalema Motlanthe.
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