News24 reports that two people have been arrested in Marble Hall for allegedly impersonating Hawks officers and attempting to solicit a R50,000 bribe.  

The arrests on Saturday came after a director of a company, which had been awarded a tender to supply Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE), received a call from one of them.  The suspect apparently introduced himself as a member of the Hawks stationed in Mpumalanga and allegedly told the director that he was investigating a case of corruption against him and demanded R50,000 "to quash the docket".  The matter was reported to the Hawks' Serious Corruption Investigation Unit, which acted swiftly and arrested two suspects immediately after they had received R20,000.  Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspects were in possession of fraudulent documents bearing the Hawks' logo.  They were scheduled to appear in the Marble Hall Magistrate's Court on Monday on charges of corruption and impersonating police officials.

• Read the original of the report in the above regard by Nicole McCain at News24

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