MPUMALANGA – The Mpumalanga Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation is seeking public assistance in locating Justice Sambo (46) of Witbank, Mpumalanga. Sambo is wanted in connection with illegal sale of low cost houses through a social media advert. It is alleged that during October 2020,…
MPUMALANGA - Two suspects aged 23 and 44 were arrested by members of the Mpumalanga Tactical Response Team, the Middelburg based Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation, Local Criminal Record Centre Witbank and Fidelity Security during the night of Thursday 25 February 2021 for Theft of…
NORTHERN CAPE - The Provincial Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Major General Kholekile Galawe has welcomed the sentences imposed on Frank Onyenakasa (31), for dealing in drugs by the Kuruman Magistrate Court on Thursday, 25 February 2021. The accused was part of…
WESTERN CAPE – A former Sheriff of the Court, Abraine Fernadez Rodericus Coericius (42) was sentenced and convicted yesterday by the Oudtshoorn Regional Court for Fraud and Money Laundering . It is alleged that during 2016 while he was a Sheriff of the court he…
EASTERN CAPE - The Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team in Umtata arrested 14 supermarket employees on, 24 February 2021 for fraud. It is alleged that between May and July 2011, the accused defrauded a local supermarket in Elliotdale by writing off sales, in the…
EASTERN CAPE - Neliswa Mapekula (63) was convicted and sentenced to 10 years direct imprisonment on 22 February 2021 by the Mount Frere Regional Court on three (3) counts of tempering with Eskom infrastructure and stealing prepaid units amounting to over R189 000. It is…
LIMPOPO - The Hawks' Serious Organised Crime Investigation members arrested a 35-year-old woman on Wednesday in Thohoyandou for allegedly plotting to murder her ex-husband. It is alleged that the suspect hired a hitman in November 2020 to execute the plot of killing her ex-husband who…
The Durban based Hawks' Serious Corruption Investigation team arrested 33-year-old Nana Precious Mbuto on Tuesday, 23 February 2021 for Temporary Employee Relief Scheme (TERS) fraud. Mbuto stands accused of falsely applying for TERS funds from the Department of Labour amounting to just over R2.6 million…
EASTERN CAPE – An alleged tax evader Neliswa Tantsi (49) was arrested on Wednesday by the East London based Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team for allegedly defrauding the South African Revenue Services (SARS). It is alleged that between 2014 and 2015 Tantsi failed to…
The Hawks Serious Organised Crime Team together with Crime Intelligence and Gauteng K9 have arrested two more suspects of an alleged notorious vehicle hijacking syndicate in a interprovincial takedown operation. The syndicate has been on the radar of the authorities for a while. A project…