Johannesburg – The Johannesburg High Court has postponed the bail application by elderly Michael Harry Lomas to 17 March 2025 for judgment.
Lomas has been behind bars since his extradition from the UK in September last year, 2024.
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Both the state and Lomas’ attorney completed their heads of argument, and the state argued strongly against granting the 77-year-old accused bail.
The state argued that Lomas was a flight and suicide risk based on the reports by two psychiatrists sourced by him in the United Kingdom during his extradition hearing, wherein they declared him to be a suicide risk.
“Furthermore, the state made reference to how he left South Africa through Namibia to the United Kingdom in March 2018, possibly knowing that investigations were conducted on the Kusile matter,” said Henry Mamothame spokesperson for the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC).
Lomas and 11 others are facing 65 counts of corruption relating to the R1,4 billion that was meant for the construction of Eskom’s Kusile power station in Mpumalanga.
