Top cop under
fire for ties to businessman
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April 2016, 2:58pm
Phalane
Motale
Durban - KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial police commissioner
Mmamonnye Ngobeni’s association with controversial Durban businessman, Thoshan
Panday, has come back to haunt her.
Acting national police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Khomotso
Phahlane, has decided to establish a board of inquiry into Ngobeni’s fitness to
hold office.
The Sunday Tribune’s sister newspaper, the Sunday Independent,
has seen letters from the Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko, one to KZN Premier
Senzo Mchunu, and another to the province’s MEC for Community Safety and
Liaison Willies Mchunu, in which they are informed that Lieutenant-General
Khomotso Phahlane has served her with a notice of suspension, pending the
finalisation of the board.
The letter said Phahlane took the decision after receiving a
report from the acting executive director of the Independent Investigative
Directorate (Ipid) relating to alleged systematic corruption cases in KZN.
“The Provincial Commissioner, KwaZulu-Natal as well as other
officers are implicated in the said corruption,” said part of the letter.
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