Police captain held over firearm sales
August 21 2013 at 08:55am
By SAPA
By SAPA
Johannesburg -
A police captain from Nelspruit was arrested and charged with illegal
trafficking in firearms, Beeld reported on Wednesday.
Additional
charges of corruption and theft were also laid against Captain Godfrey Lubisi,
57, who was arrested at work.
Police said the arrest followed a year-long
investigation, after rumours that weapons were being sold from the Nelspruit
police station for as little as R2 000.
Lubisi
allegedly sold a .22 rifle, a collector's item dating back to 1925, to a member
of the public in January.
Lubisi
reportedly took the man to the store where firearms submitted by members of the
public for later destruction were kept.
He gave Lubisi
over R2 000, as he had apparently agreed to also supply a firearm licence.
The
investigation was delayed because nobody wanted to make a statement, then two
weeks ago, new information came to light.
It emerged that
Lubisi had also illegally sold a Taurus .357 Magnum revolver for R2 000.
On Tuesday,
police also found a large number of firearm licences that had to be collected
from the police station, allegedly under the seat of Lubisi's car.
Police
spokesman Brigadier Selvy Mohlala said police would oppose bail. - Sapa
