KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here has scheduled a 10-day trial next year in the case of Datuk Seri Sim Choo Thiam, who is accused of soliciting and receiving a RM15mil bribe in relation to securing projects from the Home Ministry.
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JOHANNESBURG – A KwaZulu-Natal prosecutor has been sentenced to an effective five years imprisonment for corruption, theft and defeating the ends of justice.
Zanele Molefe, who was a district court prosecutor at the time of her 2015 offense, was handed the sentence by the Camperdown Magistrates Court on Friday.
Molefe, who has since been dismissed from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), approached a man accused of malicious damage to property asking him for R1,000 to make the case go away.
NPA provincial spokesperson Natasha Kara said Molefe abused her position of trust and failed to deliver on her mandate as a prosecutor.
how do you respond? yeah. i ve heard the version of the so-what defense. so what is where our democracy goes to die. we have to care about this. you cannot have this president, any american president, soliciting bribes. you can t have them using taxpayer dollars. they re meant to keep us safe. that s what the dollars are supposed to do. they re fighting the russians in europe. you can t have any president going around trying to get political favors using this kind of pressure from foreign sources. that s not consistent with our democracy and the president is abusing his power. we ve got to hold him accountable. do you feel that if the witnesses directly implicate the president, as you re directing they will, that any of the colleagues in the senate that will ultimately have this, if the president is impeached, they ll have a trial, that they will have a back up because this directly links the president to