Ex-CEO e empresário da PRASA se declaram culpados de vender fraudulentamente uma linha ferroviária de 42 km. Former PRASA CEO and businessman plead not guilty to fraudulently selling a 42km railway line.

Mthuthuzeli Swartz, ex-CEO interino da PRASA, e o empresário Nadir Mohiudeen se declararam inocentes por venderem fraudulentamente 42 km de linha ferroviária no Cabo Oriental. Mthuthuzeli Swartz, former acting CEO of PRASA, and businessman Nadir Mohiudeen pleaded not guilty to fraudulently selling 42km of railway line in the Eastern Cape. O julgamento, adiado por seis anos, começou no Tribunal Regional de Gqeberha. The trial, delayed for six years, started in the Gqeberha Regional Court. Swartz é acusado de fornecer cobertura fraudulenta para a remoção do trilho, vendido para sucata pela empresa de Mohiudeen, a Spanish Ice. Swartz is accused of providing fraudulent cover for the removal of the rail, sold for scrap by Mohiudeen's company, Spanish Ice. O custo para restabelecer a linha ferroviária é estimado em 59 milhões de rand. The cost to reinstate the rail line is estimated at 59 million rand.