The defence argued that the court would be in contempt of its own March order by granting further postponements.
The state said it was ready to proceed with trial in the high court, once racketeering charges had been added, but asked for a further postponement of four months to get statements from overseas witnesses., the defence argued extraditing accused and witnesses in the UK, Germany and the US could take up to three years and further delay proceedings, but the state said this was not crucial for the trial to go ahead.
It said the state was in possession of more than 80 million individual pieces of reading materials, equalling more than 14 terabytes of data, related to the case.Judgment on the defence’s application to remove the case from the court roll is set to be handed down on 29 September 2023.
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