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Windhoek (AFP) May 7, 2010 The case of a Chinese national and two Namibians accused of graft worth millions of dollars involving a firm linked to the son of China's President Hu Jintao was referred to the high court Friday. "The case is to be heard in the Windhoek high court on July 19," magistrate Vanessa Stanley ruled. The three accused were each handed eight boxes containing 42 thick office files containing the charges against them. All three were arrested last year in Namibia, as part of an investigation into bribery allegations involving Nuctech, a company headed until last year by Hu's 38-year-old son Hu Haifeng. Nuctech won a contract to supply the Namibian government with security scanning equipment in a 55.3 million US dollar deal, paid for with a Chinese loan granted when Hu visited the country in 2007. Their arrest came after the southern African state's Anti-Corruption Commission discovered that a 12.8 million US dollar down payment on 13 scanners had been diverted to a firm called Teko Trading. Namibian nationals Teckla Lameck and Jerobeam Mokaxwa are out on bail while Nuctech representative Yang Fan was granted bail of 250,000 Namibian dollars (31,000 US, 22,000 euros), is still in custody. Fan so far has not been able to raise the bail money. All three suspects were present in court.
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