Police commissioner 'traumatised' by raid on his home
Ipid sources said investigators were looking for evidence of an R80 000 sound system which Phahlane is alleged to have had installed in his home in exchange for securing a tender
South Africa’s top cop is meeting his lawyers after the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) raided his home‚ which he felt was traumatic for his family and an assault on his character. The raid is part of a broader corruption and defeating the ends of justice investigation into Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane and alleged kickbacks he received for awarding contracts to service providers. Directorate investigators met with Phahlane in his office on Thursday to take a warning statement from him and serve him with a search warrant for his luxury home in Pretoria's Sable Hills Waterfront Estate at Roodeplaat Dam. Investigators spent an hour searching the R8-million property.
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