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E-mail hoax case postponed

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 01 Aug 2006

The fraud case of two men accused of involvement in the National Intelligence Agency`s (NIA`s) hoax e-mail saga has been postponed to allow the state to draft final charges.

The two individuals, Business Day reports, appeared in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crime Court yesterday.

The formal case follows a probe earlier this year into an e-mail campaign by a suspended NIA agent, and others, who implied there was a plot within government to rid itself of supporters of former deputy president Jacob Zuma.

A computer expert proved the agent`s e-mails to be false after finding inconsistencies with timestamp formats and the use of angled brackets, as well as instances of spurious data.

Former NIA head Billy Masetlha left the organisation in the midst of the e-mail hoax scandal.

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