The Citizen reports that the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday sentenced Major-General Solomon Lazarus to 10 years behind bars in the “abuse of the Secret Service slush fund” case involving former senior crime intelligence personnel.  

A former chief financial officer (CFO) of the agency’s secret service account, Lazarus had motivated and approved the purchasing of vehicles that crime intelligence would use in covert operations.  Money from a special account Lazarus and his co-accused had set up, which sourced money from the secret service account, was used to buy a KIA Picanto from Atlantis Motors.  It was used by Lazarus’s daughter and was registered in his wife’s name.  The car cost R55,000.  Additionally, R39,194 was used from the special account to buy an all-terrain Honda vehicle and R27,432 was used to purchase a Honda CBR motorbike for Lazarus’s son.  Spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) Investigating Directorate, Sindisiwe Twala, advised that all of the undue benefits accrued by Lazarus were valued at a total of R237,939.65.  Lazarus’s sentencing came after he was convicted of corruption.

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