The second accused in the R25-million ABSA bank fraud case, Dzulani Walter Mashau (26), was granted bail of R2 000 in the Waterval Magistrate Court on 7 October.
Mashau was arrested at his home on 25 September this year and appeared as accused number two in the fraud case relating to ABSA bank official Fhatuwani Sidwell Mudzanani (27).
"It is alleged that the accused had planned with his friend (Fhatuwani Mudzanani) to defraud R25 million from the Limpopo Provincial Government department's accounts and deposited it into different bank accounts linked to them," said Ms Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi, regional spokesperson for the Director of Public Prosecution in Limpopo.
The case was postponed until 20 October.