Durban attorney Ahmed Amod, who is accused of being complicit in a fraudulent property scheme, remains provisionally sequestrated, with the matter only set to return to court early next year.

TimesLIVE reports that he is vigorously opposing attempts by businessman Andrey Marimuthu to finally sequestrate him to get back more than R10m he says he deposited in Amod’s trust account for property purchases in the upmarket Umhlanga ocean view complex, The Pearls.

However, Amod says Marimuthu was not his client, and acting on the instructions of estate agent Shanell Sewpersad, who told him they were ‘investments and loans’, he transferred the money elsewhere. 

Marimuthu obtained the provisional sequestration in the KZN High Court (Durban) against Amod in April.

When the matter returned to court on Tuesday, the rule was extended and, by consent, it was adjourned until 27 January 2026. 

It is expected that on that date, it will be adjourned to another date for argument.

Sewpersad is not a party to the application, and as Marimuthu points out in his recent papers, has not even put up an affidavit in support of Amod’s claims of innocence.

The case thrust into the spotlight what appeared to be a scam of ‘fake property sales’ at The Pearls where Marimuthu bought several properties for a steal after, he alleges, Sewpersad told him they were distressed sales.

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