News24 reports that according to the Hawks, a prominent Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) executive and his alleged accomplice have been arrested in connection with a conspiracy to kidnap and murder senior Popcru officials.
The two men were arrested on Tuesday and were expected to appear in the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court, according to Colonel Katlego Mogale. News24 reported last week that the case was linked to a Hawks investigation that commenced in September and which found "misappropriation of funds that was carried out though Popcru Investment Group of Companies". Allegedly, embezzlement of these funds had been taking place since 2016. Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said that a Lesotho national, Neo Letele, who was arrested in Kempton Park on 6 November, had allegedly been a middleman for the two officials. According to Mulaudzi, Letele was ordered to find an assassin who was to be paid R1m to execute a hit. "This was in an attempt to silence those who wanted the two suspects to account for the funds," said Mulaudzi. Letele appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court earlier this month.
- Read the original of the report in the above regard by Dominique Jeftha at News24
- Read too, Popcru CEO arrested in connection with 'kidnap and murder' plot, at TimesLIVE
Get other news reports at the SA Labour News home page