Black Leopards owner David Thidiela has been dragged into a nasty legal showdown between his club and Mercedes-Benz Financial Services after the team failed to pay for the instalment of the vehicle whose sale agreement he has signed.
Mercedes Benz Financial Services has applied for a court order to force Black Leopards to hand over the vehicle after the Limpopo-based outfit struggled to keep up with its monthly instalments.
In the application submitted to the Johannesburg High Court last week, Mercedes-Benz lawyers, Strauss Daly Incorporated, said the first division club, represented by Thidiela as the outfit’s director, received a loan of more than R1-million from the company to purchase the vehicle, a Mercedes-Benz C200 on January 24, 2019.
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