The controversy surrounding acting crime intelligence boss Pat Mokushane’s vetting has deepened, with a police report recommending that the inspector-general of intelligence investigate irregularities detected in his case. Besides calling for Mokushane’s head, MPs also want acting national police commissioner Lesetja Mothiba to resign for having overseen the numerous vetting bungles that have come to light. MPs learnt on Wednesday that Mokushane also stood accused of running a side business and had allegedly helped himself to police funds. Mokushane was among 50 top police officers who were deployed without being properly vetted, Mothiba conceded in Parliament on Wednesday. This had left police intelligence vulnerable to exposure to organised crime syndicates. It also emerged in Parliament that the police were considering referring Mokushane’s case, as well as others, to the intelligence watchdog after an internal police report that the acting crime intelligence boss’s security clea...
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