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| | Sunday Independent: Shaik begins fight for leave to appeal |
 | | On the fraud charge, the court found that Shaik had caused money to be written off in the books of some of his companies and as a result created a false impression of the money he had paid to, among others, Zuma. |
 | | Shaik's legal team had objected, on procedural grounds, to the fax being used in evidence against Shaik, stating that it constituted hearsay as the author of the fax, Alain Thetard, a Thomson executive, was not before court. |
 | | Shaik, however, has always disputed that the state had a right to confiscate his assets - and especially the indirect shareholding in ADS - as the proceeds of a crime. |
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