Former Fidentia CEO J Arthur brown hopes to consolidate both cases

Imogen Vollenhoven
11 December 2012

Former Fidentia chief executive J Arthur Brown, who faces fraud charges in the Western Cape High Court and the Cape Town Regional Court, hopes to consolidate both cases and go on trial in the High Court.

 Judge Anton Veldhuizen told Brown he had no authority to dictate to the State how it should conduct the high court and regional court cases.

 The judge said because Brown and co-accused Jacobus Theart had not yet pleaded to the regional court charges, it was possible to run both cases in the high court one after another.

 Veldhuizen added it was up to the State to decide.