Hawks official charged with corruption alongside NPA s Matric Luphondo dies
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Matric Luphondo tells court: The State s case against me is weak, I am totally innocent
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The main witness in a corruption case against acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Matric Luphondo is under threat as he is allegedly being followed.
This was the State s argument in opposing the bail application of Luphondo and his co-accused, Hawks officer Lieutenant-Colonel Ayanda Plaatjie and Mpumalanga Human Settlements head of department Kebone Masange.
The three men were arrested earlier this week and are accused of bribing a prosecutor to make a criminal case against Masange disappear. There’s more to this story Subscribe to News24 and get access to our
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Acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Matric Luphondo and his co-accused have been released on bail in their corruption case.
Luphondo, Hawks official Ayanda Plaatjie and the head of the Mpumalanga human settlements department, Kebone Masange, appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate s Court on Thursday.
The three accused face corruption charges after they allegedly conspired to have criminal charges against Masange withdrawn by bribing the prosecutor in the case.
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Masange, a Zimbabwean-born national, was arrested in September 2020 on charges of fraud, the possession of fraudulent documents and the contravention of the Immigration Act. It s alleged that he entered South Africa illegally and used fraudulent documents in his application for the head of department post.