Pretoria Magistrates Court amends bail conditions of 7 seven senior crime intelligence officers
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JOHANNESBURG - The Pretoria Magistrates Court has amended the bail conditions of seven senior crime intelligence officers, accused of wrongdoing, to protect witnesses.
Crime intelligence boss, Dumisani Khumalo, and six other officials within the unit, appeared before the court on Wednesday, on charges including fraud and corruption.
The group allegedly colluded to appoint an unqualified 30-year-old, Dineo Mokwele, as a brigadier for a highly specialised division last year.
Mokwele was tasked with overseeing serious national covert operations within the Crime Intelligence Unit.
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She's accused of falsifying qualifications on her CV to land the more than R50,000 per month net-salary job.
A list of witnesses has been presented to seven senior crime intelligence officials, implicated in an ongoing fraud and corruption scandal.
Crime intelligence boss, Dumisani Khumalo, the unit's CFO Philani Lushaba, Precious Madondo, head of the analysis centre, Josias Lekalakala, Gauteng head of Crime Intelligence, Zwelitini Gabela of SAPS Technology Services, Cynthia Ncube, head of the vetting office and Dineo Mokwele, a technical support system manager, appeared in the Pretoria Regional Court earlier.
The State has disclosed several documents to the accused's defence, one of which includes a list of witnesses who will be called to testify in the matter.
While the names of the witnesses were not made public, it's understood that several are members of crime intelligence.
Khumalo and his co-accused were arrested in June by members of the Investigative Directorate Against Corruption.
The main case will resume next month, while Khumalo, Mokwele, Madondo and Lekalakala will submit an application next week to return to work.
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