Payne is an accused in the same case as former Gauteng Health MEC, Brian Hlongwa.
JOHANNESBURG - After more than a decade on the lam, graft-accused businessman Richard Payne’s extradition now looks to be imminent.
A Special Investigating Unit report found Hlongwa had scored big in the form of luxury spa treatments for him and his wife, trips and a multi-million-rand deposit on a plush Bryanston home from the allegedly dodgy dealings. That same year, Hlongwa resigned from his erstwhile position as the ANC’s chief whip in the province but he has not faced any criminal consequences up until now.
In late 2022, the Justice Department then issued an extradition request and Payne was subsequently arrested. He maintains further that he then went to the UK for a combination of reasons, including his father’s 90th birthday and to explore possible relocation. Payne also sought to rely on an argument based on the amount of time that had passed since the alleged offences but the court found he had"not established that there is missing evidence such as would prejudice the conduct of his trial or make it unjust to extradite him" not that “lost witnesses and/or faded memories exist such as to render extradition unjust".
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