Shortly after being discharged from hospital, controversial businessman Angelo Agrizzi says he is ready to cross-examine witnesses at the state capture inquiry.
Speaking from inside a vehicle with drips still attached to his left arm, Agrizzi told Sunday Times Daily: “I am feeling like I feel. What can I say? I have been discharged and am on my way home.”
Agrizzi, 53, was admitted to a private hospital after suffering a heart attack on October 21, a week after he was denied bail by the Palm Ridge magistrate’s court. At the time, he was reportedly receiving treatment at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital before he was transferred to the private facility.
He is facing charges of bribery and corruption in connection with R800,000 allegedly paid to ANC politician Vincent Smith.
In December his lawyer, Daniel Witz, told TimesLIVE the matter had been postponed until March 2021.
“I think there is a lot I need to focus on. I think I need to go to cross-question certain people, but I don’t know when that will be,” Agrizzi said on Friday.
“Everybody has been covering up everything. Look at what happened to me.”
Agrizzi said since being hospitalised, he has not been privy to what has transpired at the state capture inquiry.
“I was pretty OK until I was sent to Johannesburg Medium A [prison] and was promised I would get access to medication.
“I have not been able to get information on what really happened to me. I was told my family had asked for me to be moved to a private hospital, but that is not true.
“My family did not know where I was for about 10 days.”
“For the first time in my life, I have kidney failure and all sorts of things. Can you imagine? And all of this is because of political games.
“I want to go back and cross-examine certain people,” he said.
The former Bosasa COO recently released his book Inside the Belly of the Beast, a memoir into the multibillion-rand corruption Bosasa saga and what happened behind closed doors.
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