A man who allegedly went on a shopping spree with the credit card of arrested Blue Bulls rugby player Jacobus "Bees" Roux appeared briefly in court yesterday.

Vusumuzi Ntloko, 29, of Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, was arrested on Friday, a week after metro police officer Johannes Mogale was allegedly killed by Roux.

It is alleged that Ntloko picked up Roux's wallet in Schoeman Street at the site where Roux allegedly beat Mogale to death with his bare hands.

Mogale had stopped the rugby player on suspicion of drunken driving.

During Ntloko's appearance in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court yesterday, prosecutor Matric Luphondo highlighted transactions with Roux's credit card on and since August 27.

Alcohol, meat, cigarettes, fast foods and electrical appliances were purchased in Pretoria over a few days, the first 10 transactions taking place within hours of Roux's arrest.

Ntloko was arrested at his workplace, the Makro Silver Lakes in Pretoria, after he allegedly used Roux's Absa credit card to buy electrical appliances worth R3798.

The transactions listed on the charge sheet include:

• R103.45 for meals at McDonald's in Silverton at 2.36am on August 27;
• At 10.24am on the same day, alcohol was bought at Liquor City in Woodhill;
• At 10.50am alcohol and cigarettes were bought at Western Province Cellars in Monument Park;
• R457 was spent on alcohol at the Baloni Bottle store in Mamelodi at 4.34pm;
• Another transaction at Liquor City came to R279.95;
• R1466.50 for alcohol and cigarettes at Western Cellars;
• R665.35 for meat, groceries or other food from Uitkyk Vleismark, Silverton;
• R298.40 at KFC Mahube in Mamelodi; and
• R362.95 at Liquor City in Mamelodi.

Ntloko's initial shopping spree appears to have ended when he tried to pay R159.40 at a KFC outlet in Mamelodi and the card was declined.

The state is charging Ntloko with theft of the wallet containing Roux's credit and debit cards and a Makro card. It alleges Ntloko was unlawfully in possession of the cards and was not authorised to use them.

Luphondo told Pretoria magistrate Nozipho Mncube that the state was looking for other suspects, who would be added as Ntloko's co-accused. The state would add 12 more counts of fraud to the charge sheet.

Luphondo told the court that investigations in the Roux murder case had led to Ntloko's arrest.

"In one of the incidents the accused committed one offence at his workplace," said Luphondo.

He said if Ntloko was released on bail he might tamper with evidence at Makro.

The state needed to trace some of the exhibits and a vehicle allegedly used at Ntloko's work.

His request for a postponement of the case to Monday next week was granted.

National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga told reporters outside court that Ntloko was neither a member of the South African Police Services nor a member of the metro police.