Mostert back in dock for escape charges
Ex-magistrate Walter ‘Rooies’ Mostert will appear in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court tomorrow for escaping lawful custody.
This follows his arrest last Thursday at the Noordoewer Border Post when he was trying to sneak into Namibia from South Africa after he escaped police custody while awaiting trial last year.
Mostert on Friday made a brief court appearance in Keetmanshoop, but was then immediately taken to Windhoek.
He has been a wanted fugitive since last year. He was scheduled to make an appearance in the Windhoek Regional Court for the commencement of his trial, but escaped from police custody when he mysteriously vanished after being dropped off at the Auas Hills Hospital in Auasblick on 5 November 2021. He was receiving medical care at the hospital under police guard.
Inspector Reinhold Nenkavu was arrested in November last year following Mostert’s disappearance.
False documents
Mostert was originally arrested on 1 May 2021 after he returned to Namibia from South Africa, where he had been living for four years. The Anti-Corruption Commission had been looking for him since September 2018.
Alongside co-accused Joyline Kambatuku, Eveline Meroro and Joram Salomo, he was charged with counts under the Anti-Corruption Act and the Immigration Control Act, money laundering, extortion, fraud and attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice.
The charges emanate from a period between 2012 and 2013 when Mostert allegedly worked in cahoots with his co-accused by assisting a South African family to obtain Namibian identity documents illegally. He allegedly furnished the home affairs ministry with false documents that they had been born at Usakos.
Also, Mostert in 2013 apparently extorted N$90 000 from one Kosie Pieterse when he informed him that his family member was arrested for overstaying in Namibia after their visa had expired.
It is further alleged that Mostert fraudulently obtained another N$250 000 from Pieterse. He apparently told Pieterse that the money would help with his application to acquire Namibian permanent residence.
This follows his arrest last Thursday at the Noordoewer Border Post when he was trying to sneak into Namibia from South Africa after he escaped police custody while awaiting trial last year.
Mostert on Friday made a brief court appearance in Keetmanshoop, but was then immediately taken to Windhoek.
He has been a wanted fugitive since last year. He was scheduled to make an appearance in the Windhoek Regional Court for the commencement of his trial, but escaped from police custody when he mysteriously vanished after being dropped off at the Auas Hills Hospital in Auasblick on 5 November 2021. He was receiving medical care at the hospital under police guard.
Inspector Reinhold Nenkavu was arrested in November last year following Mostert’s disappearance.
False documents
Mostert was originally arrested on 1 May 2021 after he returned to Namibia from South Africa, where he had been living for four years. The Anti-Corruption Commission had been looking for him since September 2018.
Alongside co-accused Joyline Kambatuku, Eveline Meroro and Joram Salomo, he was charged with counts under the Anti-Corruption Act and the Immigration Control Act, money laundering, extortion, fraud and attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice.
The charges emanate from a period between 2012 and 2013 when Mostert allegedly worked in cahoots with his co-accused by assisting a South African family to obtain Namibian identity documents illegally. He allegedly furnished the home affairs ministry with false documents that they had been born at Usakos.
Also, Mostert in 2013 apparently extorted N$90 000 from one Kosie Pieterse when he informed him that his family member was arrested for overstaying in Namibia after their visa had expired.
It is further alleged that Mostert fraudulently obtained another N$250 000 from Pieterse. He apparently told Pieterse that the money would help with his application to acquire Namibian permanent residence.
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