NEWS - NAMIBIA | 2013-07-30Adriaan Pienaar
Swindling suspect’s cases to Regional Court
Luqman Cloete
THE cases of the South African citizen who stands accused of swindling several businesses in southern Namibia out of thousands of dollars, was transferred from the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court to the Mariental Regional Court.
At his brief court appearance yesterday, Magistrate Philanda Christiaan informed Adriaan Jacobus Pienaar that the Prosecutor General instructed that he be arraigned in the regional court on 44 charges including fraud, theft and contravening the Immigration Act by illegally conducting business in the country while on a visitors entry permit.
It is alleged that Pienaar has defrauded shops in Keetmanshoop, Noordoewer, Mariental, Luderitz and Karasburg of cigarettes and groceries worth thousands of dollars.
Pienaar also faces similar charges at the coast for allegedly having defrauded shops in Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Grootfontein.
At yesterday’s court hearing, an attempt by Pienaar to apply for bail failed after Christiaan rejected his request for a formal bail application.
Christiaan told Pienaar to apply for bail during his court appearance set for 4 November in the regional court, and ordered that he be kept at the Hardap Prison.
The magistrate also rejected the accused’s request to be taken to a local hospital.
Pienaar told the court that he had obtained a High Court order to be taken to the hospital to which Christiaan responded: “You have to solve that problem with the Police”
luqman@namibian.com.na
It is alleged that Pienaar has defrauded shops in Keetmanshoop, Noordoewer, Mariental, Luderitz and Karasburg of cigarettes and groceries worth thousands of dollars.
Pienaar also faces similar charges at the coast for allegedly having defrauded shops in Swakopmund, Walvis Bay and Grootfontein.
At yesterday’s court hearing, an attempt by Pienaar to apply for bail failed after Christiaan rejected his request for a formal bail application.
Christiaan told Pienaar to apply for bail during his court appearance set for 4 November in the regional court, and ordered that he be kept at the Hardap Prison.
The magistrate also rejected the accused’s request to be taken to a local hospital.
Pienaar told the court that he had obtained a High Court order to be taken to the hospital to which Christiaan responded: “You have to solve that problem with the Police”
luqman@namibian.com.na
