Charges of assault and pointing of a firearm have been opened up against ANC benefactor and businessman Edwin Sodi after he allegedly attacked his estranged wife, Nthateng Lerata, and her friend.
Edwin Sodi at the Commission of Inquiry Into State Capture, where he testified about the Free State asbestos project for which he faces corruption charges.Charges of assault and pointing of a firearm have been opened against ANC benefactor and businessman Edwin Sodi after he allegedly attacked his estranged wife, Nthateng Lerata, and her friend.
Sodi’s company secured the tender through a joint venture with the now dead Ig Mpambani’s Diamond Hill Trading. “Information at our disposal indicates that he allegedly pistol-whipped Nthateng’s friend. He apparently tried to fire the gun again but it misfired. Sodi then fled the house,” said the source.The source said on Friday night police tried to arrest Sodi at his other home in Redhill Road, Sandton.
“The police entered the house but couldn’t find him. The house is massive. A wing of the house was locked and it is suspected that he was inside the locked part. We don’t know why the cops did not go inside that part.”
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