Crime

PRETORIA - The East London Magistrate Court has issued warrant of arrests after only one suspect out the nine handed himself over to the Hawks Task Team members on Friday. The outstanding eight suspects chose to abscond and instead picked to send their legal representatives…

WESTERN CAPE – Jaco Van der Westhuizen, 35, has appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday 14 March 2017, over allegations of running a Ponzi scheme, which resulted in ‘investors’ losing just over a million rand. It is alleged that between 2015-08-25 and…

WESTERN CAPE – Ockert Johannes Stephanus Fourie, 57, has been sentenced to an eight year jail term by the Oudtshoorn Magistrate’s Court on Thursday (16th March 2017) for allegedly defrauding ABSA Bank of almost R5-million. Fourie, a sole director of Close Corporation, Sunprix Grape and…

Gauteng - Hawks' SANEB has on Tuesday afternoon conducted a disruptive operation in Silverton, Pretoria where they arrested four suspects for illegally manufacturing schedule 6 medicine with an estimated value of R50 million. Police received a tip off about illegal activities which were happening at…

Free State - The Virginia High Court has on Tuesday, 14 March 2017 imposed lengthy jail terms to 22 convicted illegal miners. Lovemore Chaba Mlambo (35) man behind all illegal operations in Masimong mine, will serve 25 years imprisonment as the charges are said to…

DPCI NATIONAL HEAD APPLAUD TWENTY YEAR IMPRISONMENT FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING GAUTENG - The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza has welcomed the hefty conviction and sentencing of Ugochukwu Eke, 32 years old to twenty (20) years direct…

Northern Cape – A Hawks’ intelligence driven investigation project has successfully disrupted and dismantled the alleged drug syndicate operating in Upington. During the project termination on Monday, 13 March 2017, five suspects aged between 30 and 38 were arrested. They were charged in connection with…