Bartica businessman Eon Ferrier, who is before the court on a charge that he fraudulently converted $120M from Mohamed’s Enterprise given to him to buy gold, last month secured a court order to have the magistrate who was originally hearing the case show proper cause for his decision to recuse himself.
Ferrier was charged in July with the crime and since then the magistrate, Dylon Bess, who was originally assigned the case, recused himself. The matter has since been transferred to another magistrate.
Ferrier detailed the developments in the case in a statement issued last weekend, where he also noted that he was receiving threats and he believes that his life is in danger. He said the new magistrate subsequently refused an application by his attorney to have the