Metro cop chief linked to
crime intelligence firm
15 Sep
2013 | MZWANDILE kaBIZOKWAKHE and SOMAYA STOCKENSTROOM |
THE new chief of the Johannesburg
Metro Police
COVERT:
Zwelibanzi Nyanda
The
company is used by SAPS crime intelligence to cover its tracks when it buys
goods and services, including houses and cars, supposedly for the benefit of
its informants and for use in undercover operations.
The
covert fund of the crime intelligence unit is believed to be R90-million a
year, but it is not known whether all of it is controlled by Universal.
In the
past few years the covert fund has attracted negative coverage with a slew of
allegations that it has been abused for the benefit of the crime intelligence
head honchos.
Another
Universal co-director, Major-General Solomon Lazarus, appeared in court for
fraud relating to the abuse of the fund. He has since been reinstated as head
of finance for crime intelligence.
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