The Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court has granted former national police commissioner Kgomotso Phahlane and five others, bail ranging from R5 000 to R50 000.
The six face fraud, corruption, theft, and money laundering charges in connection with a police tender of over R54 millionThe arrests of the six are a culmination of a six-year-long investigation by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate .
Phahlane’s assets were recently seized by the Asset Forfeiture Unit in the controversial R191-million blue light tender fraud case.“The criminal procedure act provides that bail should not be fixed as a punishment, but it should be an issue of affordability.
“I’d like to first say congratulations, on a job well done. I’ve looked at the indictment and it’s watertight as it was three years ago but most importantly from amongst the people here, they conducted a reign of terror against IPID investigators. One was killed, some were arrested other people who assisted like O’Sullivan next to me were also arrested as counter investigations against us.”
“These crooks are having taxpayer-funded lawyers and it’s got to stop. The taxpayer must say no, we are not paying any more money for these criminals because otherwise what happens is the taxpayer contributing to the legal profession. They can go and find their own lawyers; they stole millions and millions. In fact, I estimated the total theft to the corruption of Phahlane and his accomplices to be more than R1 billion.
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