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Former Nelson Mandela Bay communications boss, Roland Williams, returned to prison on Wednesday to begin serving his sentence for defrauding Santam.
This, after his appeal against the implementation of his suspended four-year sentence, was dismissed in the High Court last week.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson, Luxolo Tyali, said in a brief statement that Williams “handed himself over to Correctional Services Authorities just after 13:00 today (Weds).”
Fifty-one-year-old Williams was in prison for 52 days when he obtained the legal services of Danie Gouws to launch an appeal.
In 2018, Williams was sentenced to 36 months of correctional supervision, a suspended four-year prison sentence, and was fined R30 000 for defrauding Santam.
He was also ordered to pay back the R96 000 that had been paid out to him for a road accident that never happened.
Williams was arrested in November 2020 when he defaulted on his monthly re-payments to Santam as per his initial sentencing agreement.
