Estate agent should explain receipt of general's money

A Swakopmund estate agent being sued for almost a million United States dollars by an army general from the Democratic Republic of Congo needs to explain why he received the money that the general paid into a bank account of his business, a High Court judge has ruled.

Estate agent Erwin Sprangers received money into his estate agency's business account, and he should explain how and under what circumstances that happened and for what he received the money, judge Thomas Masuku stated in a ruling handed down in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.

In the ruling, judge Masuku dismissed an attempt by Sprangers to bring an end to a case in which DRC general François Olenga is suing him for US$850 000 (currently the equivalent of about N$11,8 million).