A 61-year-old former Lieutenant Colonel of the South African Police Service (SAPS) was served with summons on Thursday, 2 December 2021 by the Hawks Serious Corruption Investigation team on allegations of fraud.
The former police official worked at Provincial Crime Intelligence in Kimberley and was supposed to attend a work session in Pretoria but it was postponed before he could even travel.
It is alleged that during November 2019, he submitted a fraudulent travel claim of more than R3 000 purporting to have attended a work session.
The matter was reported to the Hawks’ for investigation and the former police official was summoned to appear before Kimberley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, 19 January 2022.