The Hawks have begun their investigations into the VBS scandal. It follows the released of a report on how almost R2-billion was looted from the bank.
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The VBS scandal – Hawks say arrests are imminent, really, or will this also be swept under the rug!
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The ‘bad mix’ of the VBS Sage:- PIC, VBS, Floyd and his baby brother
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Screenshots of text messages purporting to be a conversation between Floyd Shivambu and a businessperson with questionable links to the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) suggests a direct link between the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) deputy president and his brother Brian’s business.
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VIDEO:- Kessie Nair arrested by the Hawks for using the K-word for Cyril Ramaphosa
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Durban – Kessie Nair the Durban man who President Cyril Ramaphosa the derogatory K-word in a Facebook video – that has gone viral – has been arrested by members of the Hawks.
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Confirmation from Treasury – Eskom looting was an inside job
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The noose is tightening around senior Eskom officials already implicated in looting with further evidence of the underhanded tactics used to benefit the infamous Gupta family, revealed on Sunday.
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Feud between EFF Leader and advocate: “Bring it on bloody racists” – Malema tells Nel
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“Bring it on bloody racists, you don’t scare me at all. I’m born ready! No white man will decide my destiny, the poor masses of our people will…”
So tweeted Economic Freedom Fighter leader, Julius Malema, after Advocate Gerrie Nel revealed he was preparing to privately prosecute Malema on charges of fraud and tender corruption.
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The Parliamentary committee to use Hawks to track down Gupta’s and Zuma Jnr.
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Parliament’s committee on public enterprises will reach out to the Hawks to help track down the Gupta brothers so that they can be issued a summons to appear before the Eskom inquiry.
Chair of the inquiry Zukiswa Rantho told Fin24 by phone on Tuesday that the brothers Ajay, Atul and Rajesh were to appear before the committee along with former SAA board chair Dudu Myeni and Gupta business associate Duduzani Zuma on Wednesday.
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Zuma’s Dead Horse, the Apartheid Regime is still being beaten for murders long long ago
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The Hawks and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have begun a probe into the circumstances around the death in 1967 of ANC leader Albert Luthuli.
Luthuli, who had been banned from addressing public gatherings and placed under house arrest by the apartheid regime, died after being hit by a train near his home in Groutville, near KwaDukuza on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, on July 21 1967.
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Police involved in syndicate selling explosives and illegal firearms
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A sting operation by the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime Investigating Unit has led to the arrest of a six member syndicate alleged to be involved in the selling of commercial explosives and illegal firearms on Tuesday, 6 March 2018.
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NPA wants state capture suspects extradited, says Abrahams
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will apply to have the suspects in state capture investigations extradited‚ said National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shaun Abrahams on Wednesday.
Abrahams was addressing parliament’s portfolio committees on justice and police in a combined sitting‚ along with Hawks head Lieutenant-General Yolisa Matakata.
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Atul Gupta registered to vote in Saxonwold – IEC
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Johannesburg – The IEC has confirmed that Atul Gupta is, indeed, registered to vote at Saxonwold Primary School.
IEC deputy chairperson Terry Tselane said at a media briefing on Wednesday that the IEC was asked to check the registration details of an ID number, which proves that Atul is indeed a South African citizen.
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Shaun Abrahams sets deadline to communicate Zuma decision
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Cape Town – The National Director of Public Prosecutions will confirm his decision relating to the corruption charges against Jacob Zuma to the lawyers of the former president and the affected parties by March 15, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Monday.
Spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said the State attorney’s office has written to the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac) confirming Shaun Abrahams had reached a decision and would be communicating this by the cut-off date, less than three weeks away.
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Cops Shoot And Kill 7 Suspects, Arrest Further 10 Linked To Ngcobo Police Station Killings
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Police in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape have shot and killed seven suspects during a shootout linked to the murder of five cops and a former soldier. The Hawks say more than 10 other suspects have been arrested while others escaped.
A task team investigating the murders made the breakthrough last night.
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Hawks confirmed Ajay Gupta’s arrest warrant not linked to Estina Dairy
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PRETORIA – The Hawks have confirmed that a warrant of arrest has been issued for Ajay Gupta but it’s not related to the Estina Dairy Farminvestigation.
The unit’s acting head Yolisa Matakata clarified this aspect related to the case which saw eight suspects appear in court in Bloemfontein a week ago.
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Search for missing South African-British nationals deepens as traces of blood was found in car
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Anti-terrorism cops and hostage negotiators are scrambling to piece together the last known movements of a missing Cape Town couple thought to have been abducted by acolytes of terror group Isis.
The couple left their last trace at a secluded bush lodge in the rolling hills of Zululand in northern KwaZulu-Natal. What befell them from the time their 4X4 made the arduous climb on a gravel road out of the valley is unknown.
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NPA opposes Atul Gupta’s AFU challenge
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Johannesburg – The National Prosecuting Authority’s Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) has filed opposing papers in a court application Atul Gupta has lodged to have a preservation order against him set aside.
In an answering affidavit, which was filed in the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein on Wednesday, prosecuting authorities set out precisely why they say that R10m in Gupta’s personal bank account constituted the proceeds of corruption, fraud and money laundering.
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