The NPA says the death of Johan van der Walt, the key witness in former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal case, will not affect proceedings.
Top auditor and author of the forensic report crucial in former president Jacob Zuma's upcoming corruption trial, Johan van der Walt, has died.The National Prosecuting Authority says the death of Johan van der Walt, the key witness in former president Jacob Zuma’s arms deal case, will not affect proceedings.
Zuma is accused of receiving an annual bribe of R500,000 from French arms dealer Thales for protection from an investigation into the controversial arms deal.“As the author of KPMG's forensic investigation into money flows between Shaik and Zuma, Van der Walt would have been the state's chief witness in the trial, as he was in Shaik's trial,” News24 reported.
Zuma is serving 15 months in jail for contempt of the Constitutional Court ruling that he present himself before the state capture inquiry.
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