Police Minister glad ‘rotten cops’ arrested among 10 selling explosives
A syndicate selling explosives used in ATM bombings and cash-in-transit heists was exposed on Tuesday, with three of the 10 arrested being police officers
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula is pleased that "rotten cops" were arrested along with an explosives syndicate with links to cash-in-transit heists.A joint operation between a specialised Hawks unit‚ the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) and Crime Intelligence led to the arrest of 10 people who were allegedly selling commercial explosives.The syndicate was caught in raids at dawn on Tuesday in the Free State towns of Thabong‚ Odendaalsrus‚ Virginia‚ and Theunissen after a four-month-long investigation."The 10 suspects aged between 28 and 46 ... three among them are police officers [and] are alleged to have been supplying criminal syndicates with explosives commonly used to bomb ATMs‚ cash-in-transit vehicles and vaults for cash at institutions other than the banks‚" said Hawks spokesperson Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu."A series of transactions were conducted with the suspects wherein undercover members bought a substantial amount of explosives."Mbalula said in a statemen...
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