Lawyers for 'WMD pair' puzzled

[seemslikeadream]

15/09/2004 07:29 - (SA)


Daniel Geiges (glasses) and Gerhard Wisser are led back to the cells in Vanderbijlpark. (Johann Hattingh, Beeld)

Elise Tempelhoff

Vanderbijlpark - "We would very much like to know why the charges against Johan Meyer have been withdrawn while the other two men have to remain cooped up in the cells downstairs."

This was the question being asked by advocate Anand Choudree on Tuesday shortly before he applied for bail on behalf of 66-year-old Gerhard Wisser and his colleague Daniel Geiges, 63, both engineers from Kirsch Engineering in Strijdompark, Randburg.

The two men were arrested last Wednesday night on charges under the laws on nuclear power and weapons of mass destruction, a couple of hours after similar charges against the 53-year-old Meyer, an engineer from Pretoria and director of Tradefin Engineering in Vanderbijlpark, were withdrawn.

He did not want to confirm or deny rumours that Meyer had already been taken up in a witness-protection programme because he had turned State witness.

Wisser and Geiges looked pale, nervous and tired.

He will demand that Wisser be released on bail, because the German government allowed him bail on similar charges and even allowed him to travel to South Africa

more
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1589240,00.html

[lynx rufus]

1. You do a great service when you submit comments

I am not up to speed on this issue
but I'll bet you are.
(Sometimes I think you can type faster than I can read.)

[seemslikeadream]

2. Thanks lynx rufus here some ketchup

but you do know it's all cut and paste and that can get a person in some trouble now and then.

S.Africa arrests two on WMD charges(Abdul Qadeer Khan link)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=813182

Two Men Charged with Smuggling Nuclear Equipment to Appear in S. African Court
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=826329

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