Crime intelligence bosses lose bids to have suspensions overturned 09 January 2021 - 20:17 Crime intelligence boss Lt Gen Peter Jacobs and five other suspects of a PPE fraud investigation challenged their suspension by police commissioner General Kehla Sitole. Image: Phill Magakoe
National crime intelligence boss Lt-Gen Peter Jacobs and five other senior crime intelligence officers will have to foot their legal bills after they lost a high court bid to have their suspensions overturned.
Jacobs, Brig Albo Lombard, Col Isaac Walljee, Col Manogaran Gopal, Maj-Gen Maperemisa Lekalakala, and Col Bale Matamela were all suspended between December 8 and 10 after allegations by the inspector-general of Intelligence of abuse of the secret service account to fraudulently procure personal protective equipment last year.
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Suspended police Crime Intelligence Chief, Lieutenant-General Peter Jacobs, has lost a court bid to return to work.
Jacobs, and five officers under his command, face misconduct charges which centre on the use of a secret police slush fund to buy Covid-19 PPE.
The veteran cop claims he is being pushed out for exposing graft in the uppermost echelons of the police.
An urgent court bid by police Crime Intelligence head Peter Jacobs, in which he and five of his subordinates challenged their suspensions over a R1.5 million Covid-19 personal protection equipment (PPE) procurement scandal, was dismissed by the Pretoria High court on Friday.
Court upholds Crime Intelligence boss’s suspension Bernadette Wicks
The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. Picture: Moneyweb The court found that despite arguments to the contrary, the national police commissioner was not only entitled to suspend Lieutenant-General Peter Jacobs, he was obliged to.
The North Gauteng Court has thrown out suspended Crime Intelligence (CI) boss Lieutenant-General Peter Jacobs’ urgent bid for reinstatement.
Late last year, National Saps Commissioner Khehla Sitole suspended Jacobs and five of his fellow officers over alleged abuses of the Secret Service Account. They in response turned to the court, where they argued due process had not been followed and that Sitole had in fact not been in a position to take the action he had.
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