{"id":21099,"date":"2013-07-12T17:44:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/witness-paid-sheriff-for-boss\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T17:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T15:44:27","slug":"witness-paid-sheriff-for-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/witness-paid-sheriff-for-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness \u2018paid sheriff for boss\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \t                                <!-- Main Editorial Image --><br \/>\n                    \t\t\t      \t\t\t                                      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/b4a00_2636361888.jpg\" alt=\"scrap metal companies\" title=\"\" class=\"pics\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"captions_credit_article\">Independent Newspapers<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">Robert Mc Clelland outside the Kwadakuza court. Photo: Marilyn Bernard<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">\n<p class=\"related_articles\">Related Stories<\/p>\n<ul class=\"menu_tab_lists_related\">\n<li><a class=\"related_articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za:80\/news\/crime-courts\/state-witness-tells-court-of-memory-loss-1.1545327\">State witness tells court of memory loss<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"related_articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za:80\/news\/crime-courts\/witness-tells-of-shady-deal-1.1544772\">Witness tells of shady deal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"related_articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za:80\/news\/crime-courts\/lawyer-sheriff-ex-boss-in-dock-1.1544145\">Lawyer, sheriff, ex-boss in dock<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--PSTYLE=WT Web Text--><\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Durban &#8211; Corruption accused Robert McClelland\u2019s plan to buy back evidence &#8211; seized from him, as per a high court order &#8211; started the same day the order was executed, the KwaDukuza Regional Court heard on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The deputy sheriff of Stanger at the time, Oshwin Maharaj, came to McClelland\u2019s home in Ballito that evening, June 10, 2009, to socialise, and Nelson Pereira, who has since turned State witness, heard McClelland ask Maharaj: \u201cHow much for the box (of evidence)?\u201d Pereira said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">McClelland and Maharaj then allegedly spoke in private. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Pereira was working at McClelland\u2019s company South African Recycling Equipment at the time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">McClelland, Maharaj and Morkel are standing trial on charges of corruption and defeating or obstructing the course of justice. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The witness told the court that after June 10, 2009 it was \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d and he did not discuss the matter with McClelland until August 2010. <\/p>\n<p>                      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/48638_1751613685.jpg\" class=\"pics\" alt=\"scrap metla companies\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">Brian Morkel outside Stanger court. Photo: Marilyn Bernard<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\"><span class=\"captions_credit\">Independent Newspapers<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">It was then that McClelland started sending Pereira text messages, asking if he would accompany him to collect the boxes from Maharaj. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Pereira refused. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cEventually, in the last message, he was very domineering and told me I must do it or I wouldn\u2019t enjoy a position or the shares I was promised in South African Recycling Equipment,\u201d the witness said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">He \u201cweakly\u201d accepted and, on the morning of August 27, the plan was executed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The night before, McClelland had given Pereira R50 000 to give to Maharaj. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The witness photographed the money, to \u201csafeguard\u201d himself. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The next day, after the boxes were handed over, the money changed hands, he said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Pereira drove to Shepstone and Wylie Attorneys in Richards Bay and gave the evidence to Morkel.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">While at Morkel\u2019s offices, Pereira photographed the boxes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The State showed Pereira a number of photographs and asked him if those were the photographs, of the money and of the boxes, that he had taken. He said they were. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\"><strong>The Mercury<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Newspapers Robert Mc Clelland outside the Kwadakuza court. Photo: Marilyn Bernard Related Stories State witness tells court of memory loss Witness tells of shady deal Lawyer, sheriff, ex-boss in dock Durban &#8211; Corruption accused Robert McClelland\u2019s plan to buy back evidence &#8211; seized from him, as per a high court order &#8211; started the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-21099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}