Bheki Cele on the hook for R93m after police-aided cash heist
Victory for Lloyd’s after minister argues unsuccessfully that officers were ‘acting on a frolic of their own’
Police minister Bheki Cele has been dealt a costly blow by the Pretoria high court, which ordered him to pay R93m in damages to the underwriters of Nedbank, whose cash was stolen by members of the police service in 2014.
The court found that Cele was vicariously liable — a legal principle that holds a person responsible for the actions of another person who is under their supervision — for the actions of his officers. The officers, along with other criminals, were convicted in 2018 for robbing a cash storage company in Witbank. They were on duty at the time, and used their police uniforms and vehicles to facilitate the heist...
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