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Van Der Linden was sentenced to a fine of R50 000 or five years imprisonment of which R35 000 and three years are suspended for five years.  Meanwhile, Hendriks and Botha were each sentenced to fines of R50 000 or five years imprisonment fully suspended for five years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Police Service<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH WEST \u2013 Andries Greyvenstein (37 ) who is a major role player in the gold refining industry in Gauteng, along with Quinton Hendriks (36), Morne Botha (50) and Johan Van Der Linden (53) were convicted for illegal dealing and illegal possession of u&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Four accused sentenced for illegal dealing and possession of unwrought precious metals - South Africa Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/four-accused-sentenced-for-illegal-dealing-and-possession-of-unwrought-precious-metals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four accused sentenced for illegal dealing and possession of unwrought precious metals - 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