Robberies: 7 Online market place scammers arrested
The Rietgat police in collaboration with Honeydew and Cosmo City police members arrested seven suspects who are alleged to be online scammers following a...
Putfontein road CIT robbery – Two innocent bystanders killed, another injured
Police in Gauteng have mobilised resources to apprehend a group of heavily armed suspects following a Cash-In-Transit (CIT) heist on the Putfontein road, Ekurhuleni...
Dealing in rhino horns, after sentence accused to be deported to...
Shuihau Chen (50) was found guilty and sentenced by the Kempton Park District Court on Tuesday, 4 April 2023 for receiving rhino horns without...
R15 million theft and fraud: Executive administrator remanded in custody
Lerato Patricia Mufamadi (40), appeared in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on the afternoon of 4 April 2023, for theft and fraud...
Funeral policies fraud, IT specialist in court
Ronald Llewellyn Van Wyk (36), was arrested on a warrant following a Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime investigation that exposed his alleged role in siphoning...
Match fixing – Former Lions cricketer sentenced
A former Bizhub Lions cricket player, Jean Symes (37) appeared in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crime Court on 27 March 2023 where he faced...
Trafficking in persons, accused handed life sentence
The Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigation has secured life imprisonment for Okwudilichukwu Bobokwu Idoko (43) in the North Gauteng High Court on Friday, 30...
Fraud: Former Mayor of City of Tshwane arrested, appears in court
The 50-year-old accused, Dr Murunwa Makwarela, former Mayor from the City of Tshwane appeared on the morning of 3 April 2023, in the Pretoria...
Human trafficking, 3 accused, arrested at a Fourways brothel, sentenced
The Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime investigation has secured hefty sentences for Samson Alichi (36), Lewis Onyebuchi Okoye (38) and Anell Arendorf (26) in the...
Cyber fraud: Businessman handed a hefty sentence
The Hawks' Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team ensured that a convicted Businessman, Karabo Phungula (37) was sentenced to 15 years direct imprisonment and declared...
Procurement corruption – R1 Billion siphoned from the Gauteng Department of...
The Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation team is conducting simultaneous search and seizure operations at a house in Bedfordview, offices in Germiston and Edenvale respectively...
CIT robbery, guard sentenced to 15 years imprisonment
The Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime investigation secured a fifteen years imprisonment of a former cash-in-transit guard, Tebogo Abraham Leotlela (49) on Friday, 24 March...
