Former cabinet minister and National Party executive member Abe Williams sat through another full day of intricate evidence comprising flow charts, bank statements and receipts of his every banking transaction from 1992 to 1996 - his term in Parliament.
The Cape High Court heard evidence on Tuesday from Mike
Savage, head of Ernst & Young's forensic accounting department, who wrote in a seven-volume report on his audit of Williams' three banking accounts, that some of the deposits into William's personal account were made in his wife Esme's name.
Savage is the first of between 60 and 70 witnesses, out of a potential of over 200 to be heard in the fraud, theft and corruption trial against Williams involving a sum of about R640 000.
Williams on Monday pleaded not guilty to 35 charges of fraud, four of corruption and one of theft.
Most of the money paid into the three accounts was received
as donations from the private sector as well as from individuals for the upliftment of West Coast communities.
Savage testified about two of the corruption charges relating to two payments of R50 112 and R50 000 Williams had allegedly received from Michau Huisamen and his firm Armsec Professional Services in 1995.
The Office for Serious Economic Offences (Oseo) alleges that in return for these "kickback" payments, Williams was to have extended to the Eastern Cape a pension contract awarded to Western Cape-based Nisec, a subsidiary of Armsec.
Savage said Huisamen was to have received about R2-million if the tender was successful.
The hearing will continue today.
Judge Roger Cleaver presided, assessed by Robert Martin and Henk Rubige. Frikkie Erasmus appeared for Williams, while Jannie van Vuuren represented the State.