Five held for corruption
2004-10-28 10:37
East London - Three public servants and two others were arrested in Eastern Cape towns on Thursday morning in connection with fraud and corruption of more than R800 000, police said.
Superintendent Msukizi Fatyela said the police anti-corruption task team made the first arrests in Bisho, Mdantsane, Umtata and Queenstown at 06:00.
Two of the arrested persons are employed by the department of justice and another one by the education department of education. The other two were unemployed.
The justice officials were suspected of having stolen R739 000 in maintenance payments.
The other cases involved about R90 000.
Fatyela said the suspects would appear in the Mdantsane special court soon.
He said: "The target is nine. We are still searching for the others."
The fraud cases date back to 2000 and the arrests were the result of an investigation begun in May this year.
- SAPA