Prosecutors in South Africa have accused him of setting of a gang of three men 13 stage a carjacking in Cape Town in November if they were on their honeymoon.
Mrs Dewani, was originally from Sweden, shot, dead, kidnapped by a car as you ridden township on the outskirts of the city went through a crime after a night.
Mr Dewani and your drivers are removed both apparently violently from the car during a fight.
But known in a hearing in Cape Town on Tuesday, the driver Zola Tongo owe to involvement in the assassination, claiming that he and the other two had hired by Lord Dewani for an agreed £ 1,400.
Mr Dewani arrested within hours in a police station in Bristol after the South African Government a formal for his extradition request.
On Wednesday, he went to the city of Westminster Magistrates Court in London, as new details of the claims against him for the first time were heard accompanied by security personnel.
Clare Montgomery, QC for Mr Dewani, dismissed the allegations as "imaginative" and "thin" and as you Howard Riddle, the chief magistrate for London urged to release him on bail.
But with Mr. of Dewani's father, Prakash, brother Preyen and members of the murdered woman family looking on, Ben Watson, for the South African Government, outlines the new claims.
He said that the businessman allegedly members of the gang had said, it was not the first time he had arranged a killing those circumstances in the country.
It came as he details of a witness statement from Monde Mbolombo, a friend of Zola Tongo's and the alleged "middle man" outlines which cause the driver contributed the hit men find to carry out the killing.
He told how Tongo Mr Mbolombo had allegedly said that he had been contacted by a man ", who wanted to have murdered his wife".
Mr Watson went on: "he also said he felt that the man in South Africa before been and also, that he had done something like this before, said as he wanted to look like a hijacking the murder and he said that he previously for someone who are killed in a fake kidnapping in South Africa had arranged."
Miss Montgomery told the Court that Mr Dewani South Africa had never before the honeymoon and the Court, a copy of his passport shown, confirmed issued in 2006, the, that he not there have been at this time.
Excerpts from a confession of one of the alleged armed Mzwamadoda Qwabe, were in court that detail, as the band relied allegedly after killing because Mr Dewani had failed to pay the edge read 15,000 (£ 1,400) agreed that kill fee.
He claimed that you had received only edge 10,000 request of a furious row in which he claimed Tongo was almost shot.
Mr Watson told the Court that police had set up queries that Mr Dewani the equivalent of 200 £ retired at an airport Office solution on November 9. Then on 12 Nov, the night before the murder, he took another £ 800 on a machine on the waterfront in Cape Town from one.
He said: "The South African authorities, although you agree this is circumstantial evidence at this stage - say that Mr Dewani had over 10,000 edge in his possession at the time he paid could have used for the murder of his wife."
He also said that police suspicious, almost immediately was Mr Dewani due to the fact, that he a private driver instead of using its on-site shuttle and the justification for that in an area that had hired known to be dangerous.
Miss Montgomery said the judge: "it is clear that what happened has been devastating to lose a nightmare for him, his wife and now the object of these allegations."
"But he is personally prepared to deal with these allegations and in my submission, it is reasonably confident men with nothing to lose and everything to win come."
Ms. of Dewani's sister Ami said you didn't know "what to believe."
"It's really difficult;" for the family to hear what we want is the truth to everyone in this situation, and everything, "she said."
Her cousin Sneha Hindocha, who added courts: "I would say all is that we want justice for Anni."
In the meantime the murder in a threatened diplomatic spat spiral as one of the highest ranking politicians South Africa into the trap, fact that Wade "Brite must be shipped".
Helen ZILLE, the Premier of the Western Cape Province, said: "I can't believe, there are evil in the world."
Referring to the claim that Mr perform three South Africans Dewani, employs the "hit" for him, she went on: "this evil seems the abuse of South Africans have tightened."
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