Pretoria - Schabir Shaik's statement in his appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal runs to 127 pages.

The convicted fraudster is asking the court to rule Judge Hilary Squires was wrong when he denied Shaik leave to appeal against one of the corruption charges on which he had been found guilty in Durban High Court.

Judge Squires allowed Shaiik to appeal against the fraud charge and a second corruption charge but refused his request to appeal against the ruling that Shaik and former deputy president Jacob Zuma had a "generally corrupt relationship".

Reeves Parsee, Shaik's attorney, confirmed on Monday their application had been filed at the Appeal Court.

The application consisted of four volumes of more than 400 pages in total. Shaik's statement alone took 127 pages.

Shaik was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment in July, but was released on R100 000 bail.

Judge Squires extended Shaik's bail after ruling on the bittersweet application for leave to appeal.

With acknowledgements to Adriaan Basson and the Beeld.