A court clerk Siyabulela Sono (33), has been granted R2000 bail after appearing in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Friday 5 January 2018, following his arrest by the Hawk’s Serious Corruption Crime unit on Thursday for alleged corruption.
It is alleged that late in 2016, Sono allegedly approached a female accused in a theft case and offered to make her case go away in exchange for a R10 000 bribe.
An arrangement for the payment was then made wherein the initial payment of R5 000 was made in cash to the official, following which the two parties exchanged contact details and started communicating through calls and messages.
A final payment was subsequently paid to Sono during 2017, and he allegedly handed over an envelope containing documents pertaining to the case.
At this stage he allegedly told her to destroy the file at home.
Needless to say the case continued and when the woman’s sentence of correctional supervision was being processed on 01 December 2017, she then alerted the authorities of her ‘deal’ with the court official culminating in a Hawks probe and his arrest.
The matter has been postponed to 6 March 2018 pending further investigations.
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