The Botswana government may no longer be looking for him‚ but now Paul Mthabela is upset that he "wasted" his money allegedly trying to bribe his way out of extradition. The trial of one of the court officials he allegedly bribed‚ former magistrate Johannes Kgomo‚ was postponed at the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.Kgomo is accused of soliciting a bribe from Mthabela‚ who is also a witness in the attempted murder trial of Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and five others‚ to get the magistrate presiding over his extradition hearing to stop his extradition.Mthabela previously told the court that he had approached Kgomo after a deal with two other men fell through. The two men were allegedly sent by a magistrate at the Randburg Magistrate's Court to offer his help to stop Mthabela's extradition to Botswana‚ where he was facing fraud charges for allegedly stealing R17-million from a government medical aid scheme.The men asked him for R1.5-million‚ but he could not afford that amount.Mthabela said he had then asked his friend and Krejcir co-accused Desai Lupondo for assistance and Lupondo took him to Kgomo‚ who allegedly said he could help for R500‚000.He said Kgomo and the magistrate presiding over his extradition matter had taken a first instalment of R90‚000 but he still ended up in prison. He was angry and approached the Hawks‚ who conducted a sting operation that led to Kgomo's arrest.Kgomo has pleaded not guilty and said the payment was for a car he had sold to Mthabela.On Tuesday‚ Mthabela showed this Times Media Group Courts and Law reporter court documents from Botswana which show that the Gaborone Magistrate's Court cleared him in 2011 of any involvement in the medical aid scheme fraud.The court said: “The available evidence puts Patrick Cole (Mthabela's business partner) at the centre of the fraud deal.”Mthabela said he had “wasted” his money attempting to escape extradition‚ only to learn about the Botswana court's finding recently.Kgomo's trial was postponed until Thursday after his advocate‚ Rathaga Ramawele‚ apologised to the court and said he had to withdraw as Kgomo's representative.Magistrate Albertus Roux was not happy that the time he had set aside for the matter to be heard would be wasted while “there are people in prison waiting to come to court to be heard”.Roux gave Kgomo two days to sort the issue out.- TMG Courts and Law, RDM News Wire..