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Hawks National Head Appalled by Police Killing

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 13:27:15 +0000

The National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza has strongly condemned the murder of Warrant Officer Colbern Mashego, a Hawks member, who was gunned down on Sunday. Warrant Officer Mashego was brutally murdered after he was following information of a drug deal allegedly perpetrated by police officers based at […]

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Hawks Nab Customs Officials for Cocaine Smuggling

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:06:55 +0000

Two Customs officials from OR Tambo International Airport were arrested on Sunday evening for smuggling cocaine worth R2 million. The suspects aged 29 and 35 allegedly smuggled out an unaccompanied suite case which arrived on a flight from Brazil on Sunday afternoon and left it at the international arrival hall security passenger exit gate. Hawks’ […]

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Alleged Dealer Busted with Drugs and Ammunition

admin — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 07:52:10 +0000

The Hawks’ Firearms and Narcotics Bureau Unit arrested a 36 year-old suspect on Wednesday morning for possession of drugs and ammunition following an execution of a search and seizure warrant at a property in Wellington. Five hundred (500) units of Mandrax tablets, 250g of Tik with a combined estimated street value of over R100 000, as […]

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Pair Nabbed for Defrauding Municipalities of Millions of Rand

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:58:25 +0000

The Hawks’ Commercial unit has on Tuesday arrested two suspects, male and female aged 42 and 49 respectively. The arrests followed lengthy internal SARS investigations relating to unclaimed Input VAT claims by several Western Cape municipalities, for the period 2009 to 2011. It is alleged that a tax consultant company under the duo’s directorship was […]

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Drugs Found in Nigerians Apartment

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 06:47:35 +0000

Hawks Organised Crime Unit, SANEB and Crime Intelligence members had a joint operation which led to the arrest of a 26 years old Nigerian man for possession of drugs in Polokwane on Wednesday, 07 September 2016. The suspect’s apartment was searched and 31 pieces of rock, 17 pieces of half moon and one sachet including […]

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Cape Town Man Nabbed With Police Uniforms And Explosives

admin — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:54:37 +0000

The Hawks’ operation in Mfuleni, Cape Town resulted in the discovery of South African Police Service’s uniforms and explosives at a house of a suspect in Gcuwa Street, Mfuleni on Thursday morning. The Hawks were following information on the man suspected to have been behind the killing of a police officer who was attending to […]

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No Bail For Suspected Kriel serial Highjackers

admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 06:04:08 +0000

The Kriel Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga has on Tuesday denied bail to dangerous suspects who were arrested during a shootout with police on Sunday. Petra December Nkosi (34), Sipho Mahlangu (35), Collen Mabuza (51), Willington Cenenda (36), Sam Masinga (41) and John Rahube (35) were remanded in custody and their cases of attempted murder, car […]

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Hawks’ ATM Task Team Nab A Wanted Fraud Suspect

admin — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 09:37:34 +0000

A 34 year old fugitive wanted since 2014 on a Queenstown Fraud case has been arrested by the Western Cape Hawks team on Friday. The hawk-eyed members were busy carrying out surveillance duties at the problematic ATMs in the Paarl Area at a local mall when they identified and arrested the wanted suspect. The suspect […]

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Hawks Arrest Income Tax Swindler

admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:17:19 +0000

Following lengthy investigations the Hawks’ Commercial Wing arrested a 42 year old, alleged fake Tax practitioner for fraud. It is alleged that during the period 2009 and 2012 the suspect, a self-professed tax-consultant would approach unsuspecting SARS clients, undertake to assist them in submitting their returns, he would then, on their behalf submit fictitious business […]

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R100 million Ponzi scheme pastor arrested

admin — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:17:14 +0000

Preetoria: The Director of Platinum Forex Group, Mr Colin Davids (48) was released on R100 000 bail by the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday following his arrest by the Hawks earlier on the day on charges of contravening the FAIS Act and the Banks Act. Davids, a pastor at New Direction Grace Ministries in Parow, Cape […]

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Hawks Dispel Rumours of Politicians

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 06:46:49 +0000

Pretoria – The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation is concerned with the number of speculations making rounds about the so called imminent arrests of political leaders in the Wandile Bozwana murder case. The information has unfortunately been taken advantage by unscrupulous people whose interest is to bring confusion and fear. The National Head of the […]

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Former police reservist nabbed for impersonating a prosecutor

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:37:00 +0000

Northern Cape – The Northern Cape Hawks have arrested a former police reservist, Abraham Jacobus Visagie (39) on Monday, 13 June 2016. He was charged for fraud and corruption which he committed in December 2015. Visagie allegedly impersonated a Senior Public Prosecutor to solicit a bribe in Springbok Magistrate’s Court. He approached a 54-year-old woman […]

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Two Cops Caught in the Act of Bribery

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:06:12 +0000

Pretoria– A police Warrant Officer and his colleague, a Sergeant, who are stationed at Mangaung Detective Services will appear before the Hertzogville Magistrate’s Court today (Wednesday) following their arrest on Tuesday after they were caught in the act of soliciting a bribe. The two were investigating a case of theft of a tractor and instead […]

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Company Director in the Dock for Defrauding Department of Health

admin — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:58:50 +0000

East London – A 50-year-old man appeared before the East London Magistrates court yesterday (Wednesday) for one count of Fraud and 60 other counts of Forgery and uttering. Shaun Raymond Sam was arrested by the Hawks on the same day at his home in Beacon Bay. Sam, the director of Masakhane Sales & Marketing CC […]

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Opening bank accounts for fraudsters strongly condemned

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 10:44:07 +0000

Pretoria – The Hawks have of late detected a trend in which people receive money in order to open bank accounts for people they do not even know. Investigations have revealed that most people have become the subjects of investigations after their accounts were found to have been used to either receive or transfer money […]

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Tender Sharks

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 08:39:48 +0000

This week’s Special Assignment looks at scam syndicates that approach unsuspecting people on the supplier databases of various government departments and pretend to be the respective government departments. The scammers then instruct these suppliers to send three quotes for jobs under a million rand to the ‘department.’ The unsuspecting supplier concedes, the quotes are accepted […]

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Pay back R1 million, court told Jacques Nell

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:40:53 +0000

Pretoria – The former Polokwane businessman Jacques Nell who was convicted of defrauding ABSA bank of millions of rand was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment wholly suspended for 5 years and he was ordered to pay back R1 million to the bank by the magistrate at the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court Wednesday. Nell, the Director at […]

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Three more suspects arrested for Parys murders

admin — Wed, 25 May 2016 06:43:15 +0000

Pretoria – The Hawks in Free State have arrested three more suspects for the murder of Samuel Tjexa and Seun Tangasha and who allegedly entered a farm in Parys, pointed the firearm at the owner and demanded R20 000. The arrest of the three brings the total number of suspects arrested to ten, including a […]

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R100 000 reward for wanted criminal’s whereabouts

admin — Tue, 24 May 2016 13:56:38 +0000

Ledwaba, who was awaiting sentencing after he was found guilty for the murder of German luxury car dealer Uwe Gemballa who had ties with Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, also faces over nine charges ranging from murder, attempted murder, cash in transit robbery, possession of firearm and escaping from lawful custody. Ledwaba had previously given the […]

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Executive Mayor, Councillor in the Dock for Fraud and Corruption

admin — Tue, 24 May 2016 12:54:14 +0000

KwaZulu-Natal – The Executive Mayor of the Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Nomasikizi Khonza (53) has been arrested for fraud and corruption by the Hawks and appeared at the East London Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Khonza and Nanziwe Rulashe (36), the chairperson of the Municipal Public Account Committee at the same municipality and […]

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Councillors Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Murder

admin — Tue, 24 May 2016 06:12:43 +0000

KwaZulu-Natal – The Durban High Court has on Friday, 20 May 2016 sentenced three men to life imprisonment for the murder of the former Abahlali Basemjondolo leader Thulisile Ndlovu who was shot and killed at Kwandengezi area near Durban on 29 September 2014. Ndlovu was the whistle blower on corruption and protest marches against eThekwini […]

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SACP’s utterances disturbing and malice

admin — Thu, 19 May 2016 06:58:36 +0000

Pretoria – The office of the National Head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI) has read with shock and disappointment the malicious accusations contained in a statement issued by the South African Communist Party (SACP) labelled against the Lieutenant General Mthandazo Ntlemeza. The SACP alleged in a statement that the Lieutenant General Ntlemeza […]

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CASH-IN-TRANSIT KINGPIN NABBED IN KWAMASHU

admin — Wed, 11 May 2016 13:03:14 +0000

KwaZulu-Natal – A joint operation by the members of the Hawks, Crime Intelligence, Task Force and Durban K9 unit resulted in the arrest of the most wanted and dangerous suspect in Kwamashu on Tuesday night. The 36-year-old suspect, who has been positively linked with the murder of a 51-year-old police at Gingindlovu in November 2015, […]

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Police Constable Nabbed for Cash-In-Transit

admin — Wed, 04 May 2016 09:06:20 +0000

Pretoria – A police constable has been arrested shortly after he and other five accomplices robbed a cash-in-transit vehicle in Kraaifontein, Cape Town on Tuesday night. The suspects, two of them in full police uniform, used a marked police van to pull over a cash-in-transit vehicle along the Wabrug Road at around 20:00. The suspects […]

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Hawks nail three SAPS employees for fraud and corruption

admin — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 11:14:37 +0000

Johannesburg – The Hawks in Gauteng have on Wednesday morning arrested three SAPS employees stationed at Brakpan police station’s support service for defrauding the state of R37 000 in false overtime claims. The mastermind, who works at the station’s finance department, created overtime claims for himself, wife and sister-in-law who work at the same station […]

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