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State goes after cash ‘paid for Jayde Panayiotou hit’

The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) has gone after the money Christopher Panayiotou allegedly paid a former employee to take out a hit on his wife.

The state attorney wants this money forfeited‚ along with the cash Panayiotou‚ 30‚ allegedly gave to the self-confessed middleman to disappear after the murder.

AFU investigating officer Warrant Officer Clinton Brown said Luthando Siyoni‚ 36‚ was a lowly paid employee of Panayiotou’s and the only conceivable reason for his former boss to give him this amount of money – about R80 000 – was clearly to effect the hit on his wife‚ Jayde.

“The property was clearly proceeds or an instrumentality of a conspiracy to commit murder‚” according to court papers before the Port Elizabeth High Court.

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