Parliamentary travel scam accused Soraya Beukes is poised to break her silence about the alleged involvement of MPs in the R16-million fraud deal when she re-applies for bail on Friday.
Beukes has been languishing in jail for several weeks after her bail was revoked on the grounds that she was a "flight risk".
It had emerged at the time that Beukes had lied about the nature of a "business trip" to Mozambique.
The hotel she claimed she was going to do a feasibility study for had, in fact, cancelled her invitation minutes after extending it to her as a potential investor.
The hotel had done this after learning Beukes was implicated in defrauding parliament.
On Monday Beukes, through her attorney Rueben Liddell, successfully asked the Cape Town magistrate's court for permission to reapply for bail.
Liddell confirmed his client would testify. This is the first time she will be doing so in the criminal case.
She had initially been granted bail in July when she and six other travel agents were arrested in connection the fraud.
The six other accused, who also appeared on Monday, are still out on bail and their case was remanded to February 18.
They are Graham Geduldt and Nazley Lackey of Star Travel Bureau, Estelle Aggujaro and Mustafa Solomons of ITC Travel and Shamiema Limala and Mpho Lebelo of Bathong Travel.
Beukes had been the boss of Business and Executive Travel.
The travel scam, in which dozens of MPs were allegedly accomplices, included fake air-tickets used to claim illegally for car hire and luxury hotel accommodation for MPs, to which they were not entitled.
Every year, MPs receive a travel voucher booklet which may only be used for flights, but the scam saw them living the high-life with taxpayers' money used to hire Mercedes-Benz cars, 4x4s and for hotel stays.
On top of this, the travel agencies were also allegedly inflating the bogus claims to cream off millions more.
MPs are also expected to be arrested.
On Monday, Beukes ask the court to postpone the matter until Friday when she would launch a new bail application.
Liddell also raised several other issues, including questioning why MPs were "making arrangements" to pay off the monies they owed to parliament in relation to the fraud.
Liddell said it did not make sense that the MPs were doing this without accepting any liability for the money they were paying back.
Liddell complained about MPs leaving Cape Town during the holiday break and being unavailable if arrest warrants were issued for them.
He said the defence also wanted access to the reports, including one by the liquidators, of the implicated travel agents which fingered hundreds of MPs as alleged accomplices.
Jannie van Vuuren, for the state, said Beukes had only herself to blame for having her bail withdrawn.
He argued she was entitled to bring a new bail application, but only if she had "new facts" to present.
He added that the criminal probe had nothing to do with the MPs paying back money to parliament.