{"id":7349,"date":"2013-07-18T06:47:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T06:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7349"},"modified":"2013-07-18T06:48:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T06:48:26","slug":"figure-revised-in-police-corruption-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7349","title":{"rendered":"Figure revised in police corruption case"},"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;\">The amount two senior police officers are accused of stealing from a crime intelligence fund has been reduced, the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court heard on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Crime intelligence unit chief financial officer Maj-Gen Solly Lazarus and the unit&#8217;s head of logistics Colonel Hein Barnard would now face charges relating to the alleged theft of R370,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosecutor Gerrie Nel submitted the revised figure to the court. Both were suspended and charged with theft, fraud, and corruption initially involving R1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two said, through their lawyer, they would seek to have part of their bail conditions reviewed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court turned down their request to have the charges broken down into individual offences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nel opposed the suggested amendment to the charges. He said the charges were related, even though they were committed on different occasions over a lengthy period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have one fraudulent action but the same role players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The matter was postponed to September 18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The duo was granted bail of R10,000 each in December. 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. The charges against him were later withdrawn. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount two senior police officers are accused of stealing from a crime intelligence fund has been reduced, the Pretoria Magistrate&#8217;s Court heard on Wednesday. Crime intelligence unit chief financial officer Maj-Gen Solly Lazarus and the unit&#8217;s head of logistics Colonel Hein Barnard would now face charges relating to the alleged theft of R370,000. Prosecutor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Figure revised in police corruption case&#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":[219,34,1268,3974,210,3973],"class_list":["post-7349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-fraud","tag-hein-barnard","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\/7349","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=7349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7351,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7349\/revisions\/7351"}],"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=7349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}