Money-laundering, bribery case postponed

Money-laundering, bribery case postponed The case of a Chinese national who was arrested last week at the Kapps Farm Road Block on his way to the Hosea Kutako International Airport with U$33 500 (about N$ 469 000) has been postponed to next week.

Feng Jinquan (38) yesterday appeared before the Windhoek Magistrate''s Court, which postponed the case until 20 December for a Mandarin interpreter to be appointed by the court.

According to the police Feng has been charged with bribery and money laundering.

He was arrested on Friday morning at about 10:00 when the police searched the car he and another Chinese national were travelling in.

Several suitcases were found in the back of the vehicle and inside them U$33 500 was found wrapped and sealed in biscuit packets.

The other Chinese national, who was the driver of the vehicle, claimed that he knew nothing about the contents of the luggage and that he had only given his friend a lift to the airport. He said Feng was flying from Windhoek via Johannesburg and Hong Kong to Taiwan to visit friends and family.

According to the driver, who did not want to divulge his name, he had picked Feng up at his house.

Feng, who is living and working in Namibia, allegedly offered a bribe of N$4 200 to one of the sergeants who was questioning him.

Magistrate Gerrit Brand van Pletzen ordered that Feng must remain in custody at the Hosea Kutako police station.

The public prosecutor in the case is Hans Karel Thourob while Nambili Mhata is representing Feng.

ELLANIE SMIT