SA’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 investigation into corruption and defeating the ends of justice into Lt-Gen Khomotso Phahlane and alleged kickbacks he received for awarding contracts to service providers. Directorate investigators met 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 R8m property.
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