Top cops suspended over alleged dubious deals with forensic firm FDA
Police CFO Phalaphala Avhashoni Ramikosi and technology chief Adeline Shezi have been suspended, and 21 other officials are being probed
Two high-ranking officials within the South African Police Service (SAPS) have been suspended following an ongoing forensic investigation that has implicated them in dubious financial transactions amounting to hundreds of millions of rand. This was revealed on Wednesday evening by national police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole during a meeting with parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa). Sitole told MPs that SAPS CFO Lt-Gen Phalaphala Avhashoni Ramikosi and the police’s technology chief‚ Lt-Gen Adeline Shezi‚ were suspended after their names featured prominently in questionable contracts the police entered with controversial service provider Forensic Data Analysts (FDA)‚ including R106m in over-expenditure over three years. The report also shows that Ramikosi‚ Shezi and 21 other officials “made misrepresentations to national treasury” — in some instances to facilitate payments to FDA by seeking budget reprioritisations. FDA supplies critical infrastructure and te...
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