{"id":5805,"date":"2013-06-21T05:42:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T05:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2013-06-21T05:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T05:42:06","slug":"corrupt-cape-policemans-trial-continues-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5805","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt Cape policeman&#8217;s trial continues today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4883\" alt=\"SAPS_badge\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The trial of a Western Cape constable who tried to extort money from a taxi driver allegedly caught with perlemoen continues in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Constable Mjatya Bukani, 35, and a police reservist were on patrol on December 8, 2010, when they searched a taxi driven by Wanana Gwadino and allegedly found a bag of perlemoen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bukani apparently demanded money from Gwadino, turning down his first offer of R300, but accepting a second offer of R500.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bukani later allegedly demanded R500 more, which Gwadino withdrew from an ATM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the charge sheet, Gwadino and his two passengers were locked in a holding cell, and were later released without being charged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bukani and the reservist have pleaded not guilty to a count of extortion, and an alternative count of corruption. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trial of a Western Cape constable who tried to extort money from a taxi driver allegedly caught with perlemoen continues in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crime Court on Friday. Constable Mjatya Bukani, 35, and a police reservist were on patrol on December 8, 2010, when they searched a taxi driven by Wanana Gwadino and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=5805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corrupt Cape policeman&#8217;s trial continues today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3347,219,34,3346,1499],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-constable-mjatya-bukani","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-oerlemoen","tag-south-african-police-service"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/SAPS_badge.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5806,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}