Court says Andre Hanekom has been released on bail and awaits trial, but wife denies it

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Court says Andre Hanekom has been released on bail and awaits trial, but wife denies it

12:51 CAT | 18 Jan 2019

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Two versions of the same case: the arrest of the South African businessman accused of financing attacks in Cabo Delgado. According to the provincial court, the businessman has been released on bail and awaits trial.

“When he was detained there was, in fact, a request by the judge of the prison site. He heard (the accused) and later the bond was fixed and, having been paid, the release warrant of this citizen was issued. At the moment he is at liberty,” Judicial Court of Cabo Delgado spokesman Zacarias Napatima said.

But the businessman’s wife, Francis Hanekom, denies that Andre Hanekom is at liberty.

She says she paid a bond on October 9, the day Hanekom was heard by the court, but because the payment was made at the end of the day, the judge said that the businessman would be released the next day. On October 10, his wife returned to the court, where she was handed documents to take to the jail in Mocímboa da Praia for her husband’s release.

“I went to Mocimboa da Praia to deliver the documentation. They told me that the commander had to be present to sign the documents. I said okay. I stood outside the jail. I was not in a hurry because they were going to get my husband to go home. Then the Mocímboa da Praia SERNIC director drove into the back yard in a SERNIC car, and after a while he left with Andre in the car. A guard inside the car was hiding Andre so I would not see him,” she says.

According to his wife, Hanekom was taken to the military base in Mueda, where she could no longer have access. Francis says that she last saw him on November 6 when the police took him to his home to gather evidence of his involvement in the attacks in Cabo Delgado.

Source: O País