Hawks
seize cops property - 12 August
The Hawks seized cars and three properties belonging to four
policemen, a clerk and a businessman in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday,
the Daily News reported. Mountain Rise police station's former
commissioner Hariram Badul, was arrested in December with Colonel
Yunus Khan, Captain Suresh Naraindath, Constable Patrick Nkabini,
clerk Edward Isaac, and businessman Sigamoney Pillay, allegedly in
connection with the disappearance of government property worth more
than R1-million. On Wednesday, the Asset Forfeiture Unit reportedly
served Badul with papers restraining his pension and property. - iafrica
website
Policemen
face charges of fraud and racketeering
- 15 August
Former
Mountain Rise Director Hariram Badul, Captain Suresh Naraindath,
Colonel Yunus Khan and Constable Bhekuyise Nkabini, along with
Pietermaritzburg businessman Sigamoney Pillay, were served with
papers by the National Prosecuting Authority on Wednesday
morning and raided by the Hawks. Hawks
spokesman Musa Zondi said the men faced charges of fraud, theft,
corruption, money laundering and racketeering. They are due to
appear in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg next week for a
trial date to be set. - Times
Live website
Mountain
Rise fraud case moved - 20 August
The case against four Mountain Rise policemen accused of
corruption was moved to the Pietermaritzburg High Court
yesterday, the National Prosecuting Authority said. - The
Mercury website
'Taxpayers
fleeced for cop's high life' - 22 August
For two years, taxpayers funded the lavish lifestyle of former
Pietermaritzburg police station commander Hariram Badul. This
emerged in papers submitted to the High Court in
Pietermaritzburg on Friday. - Times
Live website
Top
cops to appear in court for graft - 24 August
Former Mountain Rise police station commissioner Hariram Badul
and his four co-accused will appear in the Pietermaritzburg High
Court on 128 charges of fraud, racketeering, theft, corruption
and money laundering once a date has been finalised after the
public servants strike. Badul, Yunus Khan, Suresh Naraindath and
Patrick Nkabini, all senior police officer in the SAPS, along
with local businessman Sigamoney Pillay, were indicted in the
city's magistrate's court after months of intensive
investigations by the Hawks. They will appear in court again on
September 16. - IOL website
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KwaZulu-Natal
High Court : Durban
Lefatshe,
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Dawn
raid on shady government bigwigs [South Africa]
'Lover
conspired to Zondi' - 17 August
The trial of five people charged with the murder of retired
Pietermaritzburg professor Samuel Zondi was expected to begin
in the local high court today. Gugu Ndlovu, Jabulile Ngcobo,
Sakhile Hlongwa, Mzwandile Zwane and Mondli Cele are charged
with murder, robbery with aggravating circumstances and fraud.
The case was adjourned yesterday to allow Cele to consult his
attorney and because Ngcobo's attorney, Miss S Pillay, was
delayed at Northdale Hospital by striking hospital staff when
she went to collect her medication. The professor's partly
burnt and decomposed body was found three days later. - IOL
website
Magistrates
tell court of confessions - 25 August
The State alleges that Ngcobo, Zwane and Cele all made
confessions before magistrates upon their arrests and the
trial-within-a-trial phase of the case will determine whether
these confessions may be admitted into evidence against them.
The State called three magistrates to the stand on Tuesday ;
Ashin Singh, Zodumo Dlamini and Divesh Mootheram. The three
confirmed that they had taken statements from Ngcobo, Zwane
and Cele respectively, and that while neither of them had
admitted to committing the actual murder, they had admitted to
conspiring to rob Zondi at Ndlovu's request. - IOL
website