NATIONAL Petroleum Company of Namibia (Namcor) board chairperson Jennifer Comalie was granted bail in an quantity of N$7 000 when she appeared within the Windhoek Justice of the Peace’s Court docket after regular court docket hours yesterday.
Comalie appeared earlier than Justice of the Peace Jozanne Klazen about half an hour after the court docket’s regular closing time of 17h00, after prosecutors on the court docket waited all afternoon to obtain directions on her case from the prosecutor common’s workplace.
The general public gallery of the courtroom was filled with pals and supporters of Comalie when she appeared within the dock.
The court docket’s management prosecutor, Seredine Jacobs, knowledgeable the Justice of the Peace the state was not against bail being granted in an quantity of N$7 000, with no situations connected to Comalie’s launch from custody.
Jacobs additionally mentioned “numerous investigations” within the matter nonetheless have to be carried out and that some displays within the case should be despatched for forensic evaluation.
Klazen granted bail as proposed by the prosecutor and postponed the case to 31 July.
Comalie has been charged with three counts of dealing in dependence-producing substances.
She was arrested on Monday, after 935 grams of hashish, 60 crack cocaine ‘rocks’ and 10 grams of cocaine had been allegedly present in her automotive, shortly earlier than a Namcor board assembly was attributable to happen on the state-owned firm’s head workplace in Windhoek.
Comalie, who was appointed as chairperson of Namcor’s board of administrators in August 2020, is being represented by defence lawyer Trevor Brockerhoff.
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