People who commit lesser crimes serve time, but bigwigs can afford to buy time outside jail with prolonged court battles.
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown will apply for leave to appeal, his lawyer said on Thursday.
Accused of misappropriating hundreds of millions and leaving orphans destitute, J Arthur Brown would have been the ultimate villain in any story line.
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After six years of litigation, we all need a reminder of what J Arthur Brown’s fraud conviction was. We round up the case in numbers.
The R150 000 fine imposed on former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown will not deter white collar crime, the Financial Services Board has said.
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown has been fined R150 000 and a suspended prison sentence following two fraud convictions.
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown was found guilty on two counts of fraud by the Western Cape High Court on Thursday.
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/ 23 November 2009
The three embezzlement cases against J Arthur Brown, former CEO of the Fidentia group, were postponed on Monday to January next year.
Fidentia’s curators have been probing a deal involving ”a significant entity in the financial-services industry”.
A court application is pending in which former chief executive of the Fidentia group, J Arthur Brown, seeks an order to stop his prosecution.
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/ 10 December 2008
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown, who is facing multiple fraud charges, has found God and a new girlfriend, it was revealed on Wednesday.
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/ 10 November 2008
An application is to be brought before court for all charges in the massive Fidentia investigation to be consolidated into one case.
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/ 5 November 2008
The Cape High Court on Wednesday granted a final order of sequestration against ”hopelessly insolvent” former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown.
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/ 27 October 2008
Fidentia’s former executive chairperson, J Arthur Brown, was on Monday released on R10 000 bail following his recent re-arrest on embezzlement.
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/ 24 October 2008
Judgement is to be delivered on Monday in the protracted bail application launched in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court by J Arthur Brown.
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/ 20 October 2008
Former Fidentia executive chairperson J Arthur Brown and his wife, Susan, have separated, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Monday.
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/ 17 October 2008
Former Fidentia executive chairperson J Arthur Brown on Friday vowed in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court to ”vigorously defend myself”.
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/ 13 October 2008
The Cape Regional Court ruled on Monday that former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown is fit to stand trial.
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/ 10 October 2008
Sparks flew in court on Friday as the state launched another bid to have former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown sent for psychiatric observation.
A psychiatrist on Thursday testified he is convinced former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown was in fact raped by a fellow prisoner earlier this year.
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown should be sent for 30 days’ mental observation, a prosecutor told a Cape Town magistrate on Thursday.
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/ 29 September 2008
A Cape Town magistrate on Monday rejected a bid by a co-accused of former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown to have his case struck from the roll.
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/ 17 September 2008
The ”lavishly decorated” Cape Town headquarters of the Fidentia group are to go under the hammer on October 8, it was announced on Wednesday.
Prison authorities have refused an application for the transfer of J Arthur Brown from the prison hospital to a private clinic, a court has heard.
The District Court of California has dealt a blow to the Scorpions’ attempts to extradite the alleged criminal mastermind behind the Fidentia fraud.
Former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown is not getting the medication he needs while he is in prison, his attorney said on Monday.
According to experts and ex-prisoners, young, good-looking men, homosexuals and white-collar convicts are most vulnerable to prison rapes.
Silence and buck-passing have been the official response to the alleged rape of former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown in the back of a police van.
An alleged kingpin in the Fidentia scandal, Steven Goodwin, faces extradition to South Africa after a court dismissed his bid to secure freedom.
Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown’s lawyer withdrew unexpectedly in the Cape Town Regional Court on Tuesday, citing Brown’s lack of funds.
There was no reason for Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown to remain in a private clinic for treatment after he was allegedly sexually assaulted in a prison vehicle, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Friday.