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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Arms Deal Commission evidence leader guilty of perjury claims FF+

Valour class frigateThe Arms Procurement Commission, with its credibility already under fire following a number of high profile resignations, has been hit by another broadside.

Opposition Freedom Front Plus (FF+) party defence spokesman Pieter Groenewald has divulged that one of the evidence leaders - Advocate S Leballa – is “essentially guilty of committing perjury”.

“In a court case in the North Gauteng High Court (Tasima Pty Ltd. vs Department of Transport, Case Number A862/12) in which Leballa acted on behalf of a respondent, it was found that the respondent’s lawyer had committed perjury in terms of a statement and the court recommended that the lawyer should be investigated by the Law Society of the Northern Provinces. In the court case Leballa acknowledged he had been responsible for the drafting and content of the affidavit. Essentially, Adv. Leballa had committed perjury,” Groenewald said in a statement released in Cape Town.

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