BREAKING: Phahlane arrested on new charges linked to R86m blue lights tender

[TheChamp]

Former acting police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane has been arrested - this time on new charges stemming from an Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) investigation into an R86m blue lights tender. Along with Phahlane, Major General Ravichandran Pillay the head of SA Police Service (SAPS) supply chain management, was also nabbed early on Friday morning.

They are expected to appear in the Johannesburg Commercial Crimes Court later on Friday morning on charges of fraud and corruption.The charges stem from a 2016 tender awarded to Instrumentation Traffic Law Enforcement, owned by millionaire Vimpie Manthatha. Last year, IPID arrested former Gauteng police commissioner Deliwe de Lange, national divisional commissioner in charge of supply chain management, Lieutenant General Ramahlapi Mokwena, Brigadier James Ramajalum and Gauteng deputy police commissioner Nombhuruza Napo on charges of corruption, fraud, forgery and uttering in connection with the same case.

https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...es-linked-to-r86m-blue-lights-tender-20190301

 

[ToxicBunny]

Its a start... now we can hope to translates into jail time...

Even if they're mid tier lackeys, its still something.

 

[reactor_sa]

Hopefully more to come in other ministries

 

[Gordon_R]

Well, the previous case was postponed/withdrawn, so this should not come as a shock.

Previous thread on the forum: https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/corruption-case-against-khomotso-phahlane-withdrawn.958575/

Previous background story: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/art...orruption-and-implicates-over-20-senior-cops/

 

[Gordon_R]

Slow progress:

'Blue lights fraud' matter to go to trial in November | News24

The so-called blue lights fraud matter, where former acting police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane is one of the accused, is set to go to trial in November.

www.news24.com

 

[TheChamp]

https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/look-multi-million-rand-mansions-belonging-to-former-saps-officials-seized-following-corrupt-blue-light-contract-098229a3-4956-41ba-bfa0-167af198017d

 

[Solarion]

lol it just doesn't end does it. It's a feeding frenzy.

 

[TheChamp]

Leather couches, 19 properties and 115 vehicles among items seized from cops implicated in 'blue lights' scandal

The National Prosecuting Authority's Asset Forfeiture Unit and the Investigating Directorate on Friday seized assets belonging to police officials implicated in the R191m 'blue lights' case.

www.timeslive.co.za

 

[G'Wobblez]

money can not buy good taste

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Its a start... now we can hope to translates into jail time...

Even if they're mid tier lackeys, its still something.

Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, Generals and Brigadiers are upper tier, not mid tier.

 

[ForceFate]

Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners, Generals and Brigadiers are upper tier, not mid tier.

I think he means mid-tier in the corruption hierarchy.

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Now I remember. It was this guy with the R80 000 sound system:

 

[nightjar]

Not worth a new thread

Police top brass are trying to cover up for a major-general who allegedly took a sex worker to his house for a night of passion but instead, she allegedly drugged, ransacked his home and stole his service firearm, bank cards, cellphone and laptop with sensitive information.

https://www.iol.co.za/sundayindepen...-officer-43bcdd06-e3ad-434a-9ca7-04f0b88cb651

 

[RonSwanson]

money can not buy good taste

Gold encrusted furniture: The mark of the nouveau riche

I have the same giggling fit everytime I see a tenderpreneur, they stick out like sore thumbs.

 

[surface]

money can not buy good taste

Indeed it doesn't but this is a good opportunity for some to display their trailer furniture to prove that point.

 

[surface]

Gold encrusted furniture: The mark of the nouveau riche

I have the same giggling fit everytime I see a tenderpreneur, they stick out like sore thumbs.

Aren't "we" trump fan though ?

 

[Hemi300c]

Africans being African without any justice

 

[RonSwanson]

Aren't "we" trump fan though ?

I haven't a clue what you are on about.

 

[surface]

Africans being African without any justice

You european ?

 

[RazedInBlack]

All these tenders. One would have thought they leant something by now.