A former police officer was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in jail after he was convicted of possessing illicit cigarettes and failing to provide documentation upon request by a SA Revenue Service (Sars) official.
A former police officer has been sentenced to six years in prison for having 40,000 packs of illicit cigarettes.A former police officer was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in prison after he was convicted of possessing illicit cigarettes and failing to provide documentation upon request by a SA Revenue Service official.
The Mitchells Plain regional court also convicted Jerome Claud Hendricks, who was a warrant officer, of obstructing the course of justice and accepting gratification to convince the police not to stop and search the vehicle transporting the illicit cigarettes. Prosecutor Jacobus Hough successfully argued against a correctional supervision sentence recommended by a probation officer.
Hendricks, who was attached to the railway police national mobile train unit in Johannesburg, was charged with having 40,000 illicit packets of Kingdom cigarettes, failure to produce proof of purchase, obstruction of justice and corruption.
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