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News24 reports that a Limpopo warrant officer detective and an accomplice who were expecting the balance of an agreed R15,000 bribe were arrested in a sting operation by the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation team on Friday evening.
The accomplice of the officer from Driekop police station is a girlfriend of the complainant, who was reportedly made to believe a rape case had been opened against him. The boyfriend claimed he was summoned to police station by the detective where he found him in the company of his girlfriend. Hawks spokesperson Captain Matimba Maluleke said R15,000 was demanded by the detective to make a rape case opened against the boyfriend by his girlfriend "disappear". Maluleke explained further: "He claims that he was informed that a case was already opened against him by his girlfriend or he should pay R15,000 to make it disappear. He allegedly paid R4,000 on the spot and promised to pay the rest later the same day. The matter was immediately reported to the Hawks who conducted a sting operation which led to the arrest of the girlfriend immediately after she received the remaining money from her boyfriend." The two were scheduled to appear in the Burgersfort Magistrate's Court on Monday charged with corruption, extortion and defeating the ends of justice.
- Read the full original of Poloko Tau’s report on this story at News24
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