The Durban High Court has heard how the cellphone of former eThekwini city manager Sipho Nzuza was seized.
The lead investigating officer in the R320 million Durban Solid Waste (DSW) tender fraud case has testified that when they arrested former eThekwini Municipality city manager Sipho Nzuza in 2020, they did not want to cause drama, hence he was asked to present himself at the police station.
On Friday morning at the Durban High Court, the retired Colonel began providing testimony concerning the seizure of Nzuza’s cellphone on March 10, 2020, the date of his arrest.
The court is currently holding a trial-within-a-trial to determine the admissibility of the evidence obtained from Nzuza’s cellphone. This is due to a dispute between the State and the defence over whether the data extracted from the device is admissible as evidence.
While the defence maintains that the former city manager did not consent to the seizure and subsequent mirror imaging of his device by Digital Forensic Investigations, the State contends that the handover to Captain Obed Lukhele was claimed to be voluntary.
