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News24 reports that last Friday marked six years to the day since former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli was arrested and subsequently suspended, with the subsequent cost to taxpayers amounting to as much as R10m.
Since his suspension, Mdluli has continued to earn a full salary, with benefits, while he sits at home. Along with co-accused Mthembeni Mthunzi, he is facing charges for the 1999 murder of Oupa Ramogibe, who was Mdluli's ex-girlfriend's husband. Both men face charges of intimidation, kidnapping, assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm and defeating the ends of justice, to which they have pleaded not guilty. Mduli has been further charged with fraud relating to the unlawful appointments of family members as paid police officers. He has also been accused of misusing money from the police's slush fund to purchase luxury vehicles for his family members. City Press reported in 2015 that Mdluli still had a full-time driver and bodyguard, a state vehicle, business class flights, and newspaper subscriptions delivered to his home on Gauteng's East Rand.
- Read this report by Angelique Serrao in full at News24
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