The Provincial Head of the Hawks Major General Prince Mokotedi has welcomed the hefty sentence of bank robbery syndicate by the Johannesburg Magistrates Court yesterday 23 May 2018.
Lucky Dube and Xolani Nxumalo both aged 44, were sentenced to 18 and 15 years direct imprisonment respectively for a June 2014 bank robbery in Vosloorus where they got away with approximately R1.7 million.
The duo entered the bank pretending to be clients, held clients and staff hostage at gunpoint, ransacked the bank and fled the scene.
A multidisciplinary intelligence driven operation was conducted and the Hawks arrested the pair in October 2015. Nxumalo was arrested in Klerksdorp robbing a bank whilst Dube was traced and arrested in Auckland Park.
Both Nxumalo and Dube still have other pending cases of armed robbery in various courts in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West respectively.
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