News24 | Fraud charges against SAFA’s Jordaan stand as new evidence emerges

SAFA president Danny Jordaan at a previous court appearance.

Representations made to the acting South Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions, Livingston Sakata to drop fraud charges against SA Football Association (SAFA) president Danny Jordaan, have failed.

State prosecutor Moagi Malebati on Friday told the Palm Ridge Court that representations Jordaan, SAFA CFO Gronie Hluyo and businessman Trevor Neethling made to have charges of fraud - relating to the alleged misappropriation of R1.1 million from SAFA - withdrawn were dismissed, and that the representations they submitted had instead led to the discovery of new evidence.

“After we received the accused’s representation, we realised that the emails attached in support of their application were selective. They did not paint the full picture. We then took the decision to approach the host website of the email addresses, which is Afrihost.

“A section 205 was submitted and they adhered to it, and in response to our request they provided us with 64GB worth of emails which gave us more evidence for this matter,” said Malebati.

Section 205 of South Africa’s Criminal Procedure Act allows a prosecutor to ask a magistrate to subpoena someone to give material or important information relating to a crime.

Malebati said this new evidence informed Sakata’s decision to dismiss Jordaan’s application, adding that further investigations would now be conducted.

More to follow.

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