GAUTENG. – The Pretoria High Court has postponed the fraud hearing of former Acting National Police Commissioner Lt Gen Khomotso Phahlane and five co-accused to 9 November. The postponement is related to the local government election and gives some of the accused who live outside Gauteng the opportunity to cast their votes.
Henry Mamothame, NVG IDAC spokesperson, says Phahlane, Lt Col Godfrey Mahwayi, Maj Gen Maanda Obert Nemutandzhela, Maj Gen Mankosana Agnes Makhele and businessmen Inbanathan Kistiah and Avendra Naidoo are on trial on charges of fraud, corruption, theft and breach of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA). The charges relate to two contracts with a combined value of approximately R54 million.
One of the contracts involves the alleged irregular acquisition of RIPJAR software, which was intended for use during the #FeesMustFall student protest actions in October 2015.
The second contract relates to the alleged irregular acquisition of Daedalus communication encryption software. According to the charges, the software was used to encrypt calls and erase phone records and messages while Phahlane was being investigated by the Independent Directorate of Discipline in the Police (IDDP) over the so-called blue lights police tender and other alleged irregular acquisitions during his term as Acting National Police Commissioner.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
