{"id":24106,"date":"2015-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/24106\/ayres-in-court-again\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T07:10:10","slug":"ayres-in-court-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/01\/27\/ayres-in-court-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayres in court again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ayres, together with Bulgarian Valeri Nikolov (41), faces a charge of drug possession following their arrest near the Middelburg Toll Plaza in November 2014.<\/p>\n

They allegedly had in their possession roughly 600 000 ecstasy tablets believed to be worth R85 million and destined for Durban where Ayres co-owns Keys, a popular bar and night club.<\/p>\n

Ayres was released on R1 million bail in December. He also had to give up two properties, collectively worth R10 million as surety that he will not flee the country.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bail conditions includes that he report to the Berea police station daily and is not allowed to leave Durban without getting permission from the investigating officer.<\/p>\n

His sole appearance follows the failed attempt at getting a bail hearing by Nikolov on Monday. No requisition was issued to have Nikolov brought to court from Correctional Services and a cable fault caused the Middelburg Court to be without electricity for hours. As a result no cases could be heard and Nikolov has to remain in custody until the next available date.<\/p>\n

During Ayres’s appearance yesterday, a date was set for the two men to appear again in February. It is suspected that Nikolov will bring his bail application then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Durban businessman Greg Ayres (45), swiftly appeared in the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court on his own, on Thursday 22 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":24107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2885,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-crime-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Crime News"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}