Hawks head General Godfrey Lebeya says that although they have limited resources, he is confident they can solve most of the cases.
DURBAN: The Directorate for Priority Crime is investigating more than 20 000 cases of which more than 2 500 are of corruption.
Hawks head General Godfrey Lebeya said that although they had limited resources, he was confident they could solve most of the cases.'s Bongani Bingwa, Lebeya said Hawks officials were trained and understood what was expected of them. "The public should rest assure that we are doing what is expected of us. There are already more than 13 000 accused sitting in court and those are the matters that have been investigated.
“There are several convictions that have been secured and in all our convictions, we never go below 80%. The matters may take longer than what is expected. The majority of the cases are in the serious commercial space, with some people involved in serious organised crime."
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