{"id":7279,"date":"2013-07-17T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2013-07-17T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T07:00:12","slug":"two-south-african-policemen-in-court-on-corruption-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7279","title":{"rendered":"Two South African policemen in court on corruption charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7280\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lazarus_solly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7280\" alt=\"Ex-crime intelligence boss Solly Lazarus\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lazarus_solly-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lazarus_solly-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lazarus_solly-190x130.jpg 190w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lazarus_solly.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ex-crime intelligence boss Solly Lazarus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two police officers accused of benefiting from a crime intelligence fund are expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two officers are crime intelligence unit chief financial officer Maj-Gen Solly Lazarus and the unit&#8217;s head of logistics, Colonel Hein Barnard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both have been suspended and charged with theft, fraud and corruption involving R1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They appeared in court on April 30 and the matter was postponed because the pair wanted to make &#8220;certain applications&#8221; to the court when the matter resumed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On April 11, Lazarus and Barnard were ordered to not contact or discuss the case with politicians or Cabinet members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were granted bail of R10,000 each in December last year, and have been suspended from the police.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2011, the unit&#8217;s former head Richard Mdluli was also charged with fraud and corruption following alleged misuse of the unit&#8217;s funds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mdluli allegedly used the money to purchase luxury vehicles. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The charges against him were later withdrawn. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two police officers accused of benefiting from a crime intelligence fund are expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Wednesday. The two officers are crime intelligence unit chief financial officer Maj-Gen Solly Lazarus and the unit&#8217;s head of logistics, Colonel Hein Barnard. Both have been suspended and charged with theft, fraud and corruption &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two South African policemen in court on corruption charges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[219,34,3971,3974,205,3972,210,3973],"class_list":["post-7279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-crime-intelligence","tag-hein-barnard","tag-police","tag-richard-mdluli","tag-saps","tag-solly-lazarus"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/lazarus_solly.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7281,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions\/7281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}