Court labels milk producer fraudster

Justice Rannowane
Justice Rannowane

Justice Terrence Rannowane yesterday called Dr Howard Sigwele, a fraudster, after it surfaced that Sigwele produced board minutes and resolutions for a meeting that never took place.

Sigwele, the promoter of the first citizen milk company Delta Dairies, had filed opposing papers before the High Court trying to stop the liquidation of the milk company he founded in 2007.

In the document filed before the High Court Sigwele claimed a meeting of the Board of directors had given him the power of attorney to represent the company and to oppose the liquidation in court.

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No room for perjury

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