The asbestos roof removal saga resumes tomorrow with a trial within a trial to test the courts jurisdiction to try Moroadi Cholota who is accused 17 in the matter.
Trial Judge Phillip Loubser granted Cholota, who is the former personal assistant of the then Free State Premier Ace Magashule , an opportunity to ventilate her claims that her extradition was unlawful.
Cholota is adamant that the state mislead US authorities that she was a fugitive and a flight risk with links in Kenya and was part of a criminal syndicate.
Cholotas legal representative Advocate Loyiso Makapela says the charges against the accused were simply followed through because of the threat investigators had made against her, claiming that she will be charged if she did not cooperate with them.
The state does not deny the threats or that they were made. They simply allege the threats were fair warning. The evidence will show that there was never a reasonable and probable cause for the charges and that us authorities were lied to or misrepresented to, says Makapela.