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Message: [QUOTE="Munyaradzi Mafaro, post: 78547, member: 636"] An Okahandja man accused in a major cannabis case has been granted bail by the High Court. Johannes Kamati, aged sixty-one, was released on a fifty-thousand-dollar bond after appealing a lower court's denial. He faces charges for dealing nearly fifty-eight kilograms of marijuana, worth close to three million Namibian dollars, and money laundering. Kamati is the third person charged in a broader case involving a large plantation discovered at a Hochfeld farm in May. He claims he was unknowingly transporting boxes he believed contained meat for his employer, one of the co-accused. The acting judge noted the seriousness of the charges but stated the state failed to prove he was a flight risk or would interfere with the investigation, upholding his right to liberty before trial. Conditions of his bail forbid contact with state witnesses. [/QUOTE]