Caps boss fraud trial deferred again

The trial of Caps Holdings boss, Fredrick Mtandah and his accomplice Justice Majaka, accused of defrauding the pharmaceutical firm of $25 million is yet to begin, two months after the High Court ordered the matter to be heard by a different magistrate.

Mtandah’s trial has had twists and turns amid a plethora of applications by both the State and the defence after the magistrate who had started presiding over the case, Kudakwashe Jarabini, recused himself.

Jarabini threw in the towel before delivering ruling, after Mtandah and Majaka filed an application for refusal of further remand, arguing accusations traded between the State and the defence had affected him.

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