{"id":204948,"date":"2021-10-13T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T09:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/ex-crime-intelligence-officer-guilty-of-corruption\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T09:57:34","slug":"ex-crime-intelligence-officer-guilty-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ex-crime-intelligence-officer-guilty-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Crime Intelligence officer guilty of corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202110\/gavel1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A former police crime intelligence officer in the Eastern Cape has been has found guilty of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, provincial Hawks spokesperson, Captain Yolisa Mgolodela, said: \u201cDuring May 2013, information was received by the East London-based Serious Corruption Investigation team that Khangelani Ngejane, then a member of the Crime Intelligence Division in Mount Frere, was extorting money from a State witness, claiming that the murder case she was acquitted on by virtue of being a State witness was reinstated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mgolodela said Ngejane, 52, further claimed that he was assigned to investigate the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe demanded R20&nbsp;000 from the witness to make the said case docket disappear. The witness paid R5 000 and agreed to pay the balance in instalments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter paying the first instalment, the witness decided to lodge a criminal complaint with the East London Serious Corruption Investigation team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mgolodela said in the second instance, a sting operation was conducted and the trap money was recovered from Ngejane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNgejane was then arrested and released on bail. He was further subjected to an internal disciplinary hearing, which left him jobless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-officer was convicted on Tuesday after numerous court appearances. The matter is remanded to 19 October 2021 for sentencing at Lusikisiki Regional Court. \u2013&nbsp;<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former police crime intelligence officer in the Eastern Cape has been has found guilty of corruption. In a statement, provincial Hawks spokesperson, Captain Yolisa Mgolodela, said: \u201cDuring May 2013, information was received by the East London-based Serious Corruption Investigation team that Khangelani Ngejane, then a member of the Crime Intelligence Division in Mount Frere, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-204948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/ex-crime-intelligence-officer-guilty-of-corruption.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}