CORRUPTION PROBE
Ipid head Robert McBride lays blame on police doorstep
In explosive briefing, McBride says the police watchdog has unchallenged evidence of wrongdoing by the acting police commissioner, including corruption and money laundering
Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) head, Robert McBride, has accused the police of deliberately frustrating the corruption probe into acting police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane. In an explosive briefing in Parliament on Wednesday, McBride said the police watchdog had obtained unchallenged evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the acting police commissioner, including corruption and money laundering. He also accused Police Minister Nathi Nhleko of "doing favours" for those who "do his bidding". The minister had recently approved the transfer of former acting head of Ipid, Israel Kgamanyane, to the Hawks, despite Kgamanyane facing charges of fraud and corruption. McBride, who was making his first appearance in Parliament following September’s Constitutional Court ruling that his suspension be declared invalid, said the recent arrest of private investigator Paul O’Sullivan, was an intimidation tactic meant to obfuscate the corruption probe into Phahlane. McBride led ...
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