FUGITIVE personal injury lawyer Ronald Bobroff and his son Darren might have escaped the Hawks by fleeing to Australia earlier this week but they could still be extradited to SA should the governments of the two countries agree to do so.The pair skipped the country ahead of handing themselves over to the Hawks after selling their law firm to a Johannesburg attorney.Wife of Ronald and mother of Darren, Elaine Bobroff, was arrested reportedly while also attempting to leave the country.She appeared in the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Tuesday and was released on R50,000 bail.Hawks spokesman Robert Netshiunda confirmed that Ms Bobroff was arrested and appeared in court on charges of fraud and money laundering but refused to discuss the substance of the case including the possible source of the tip-off that led to the Bobroffs fleeing to escape arrest.Law professor Shadrack Gutto, the director of the Centre for African Renaissance Studies at the University of SA, sai...
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