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The long-awaited gun-running trial of the man named in Arthur Fraser's explosive affidavit on the Phala Phala money heist stalled in the Cape Town Regional Court on Tuesday because his lawyer called in sick.
Urbanus Shaumbwako's case is not directly related to the Phala Phala robbery at President Cyril Ramaphosa's farm in Limpopo on 9 February 2020, but it is being keenly watched because his name was mentioned in the ex-spy boss' affidavit, which caused political ripples.
During trial preparation proceedings, the Namibian claimed the Hawks visited him without his lawyer present, while he was in remand in Pollsmoor Prison, and asked him to go through the Fraser affidavit to help the Hawks fact check it. His lawyer said he refused.
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