Alleged drug-dealing banker claims he’s ‘well respected family ou’ in bail hearing

A WESTRIDGE laaitie-turned-big-shot banker says he’s not a drug dealer, but a family man, soccer coach and businessman who's being framed in a R18 million cocaine bust case.

- BY KIM SWARTZ

Raed Cupido, 40, was back in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Tuesday in a bid to apply for bail after a failed attempt to have the magistrate kicked off his case.

He was busted on 10 June at a storage unit in Roeland Street, where cops allegedly found 15 bricks of cocaine, an AK-47, five 9mm pistols and a stash of ammunition.

Pressured

The court previously heard that Cupido was pressured by a cop and former employee of alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield and his wife Nicole Johnson into saying that the drugs were theirs in exchange for his freedom.