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North West businessman and self-proclaimed political fixer Brown Mogotsi has been denied bail in his fourth application by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.
The court found that the addresses presented by Mogotsi were not new facts, as they had already been considered in his previous bail applications.
The court also found that Mogotsi poses a flight risk, citing allegations of a possible escape and ruled that it would not be in the interest of justice to release him on bail.
Mogotsi faces charges of unlawful possession of a firearm, discharging a firearm in a built-up area, perjury and defeating the ends of justice, linked to allegations of a staged attempted assassination in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg in November last year.
He has been in custody since May, with the state opposing his release on bail. -Reporting by Culvin Mabasa
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