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“We pray that justice will not fail us’’
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“We pray that justice will not fail us’’

Key players in the fight to keep the six alleged drug dealers behind bars are hopeful that justice will be served after they appeared in the Johannesburg High Court this week.

“We pray that justice will not fail us’’

Key players in the fight to keep the six alleged drug dealers behind bars are hopeful that justice will be served after they appeared in the Johannesburg High Court this week.

The Lenasia `Big Six’, as they have been refferred to since their arrests are: Ishmail Manjoo, 47, and his common-law wife Charmaine Magdeline Peters, 45, as the syndicate's ringleaders. The four co-accused are, Ibriam Khan, 37, Liaquad Ali Salejee, 34, Aswin Nana, 31, and Juleiga Allie, 31.

The trial begins on 26 July and it is expected that the state will lead evidence on how police agents were sent to buy drugs from Manjoo, Peters and Allie. The authorities say the syndicate operated from two houses belonging to the Gauteng Department of Housing. Manjoo and Peters lived in Lenasia Ext 2 in a house they had converted into a "drugs spaza shop", serving Lenasia customers and others from neighbouring areas, according to the prosecuting authorities.


It is also claimed that the two used their own children, aged 13 and 15, to sell the drugs when they were not at home. Manjoo owns another business property that he allegedly used as a factory to manufacture some of the drugs, the prosecution authorities say. The second house, which is also said to belong to the Housing Department, is alleged to have been occupied by Khan and his partner, as well as a man known as "Tony", and their children. Allie, who is Khan's sister, is alleged to have assisted with the sale of drugs at these government-owned houses. The State says some of the drugs were manufactured from a nearby property situated at industrial premises in Lenasia Extension 6.The premises were registered in Manjoo's name.

The State outlines in it’s evidence how each member of the network was connected and what their responsibilities were. print
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