Hawks have fraud suspect in their grasp
9 July 2009, 20:27
By Quinton Mtyala
Barely a week old and the police's directorate for priority crimes, dubbed the Hawks, has already swooped.
On Thursday, officers from the unit, meant to replace the Scorpions, arrested a senior official at the troubled Department of Home Affairs refugee centre in Airport Industria.
The arrest was meant to happen in a huff of publicity as media, invited by the Hawks, streamed to the centre to witness their sharp talons.
But instead, the suspect was driven out of the centre in an unmarked vehicle with blacked out windows, foregoing the "perp (as in perpetrator) walk" made famous by the Scorpions for which they received much flak.
Police did not name the woman.
Spokesperson November Filander said the 32-year-old suspect was arrested after an investigation spearheaded by the new head of the Hawks, Anwa Dramat.
The official is expected to appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate's Court on Friday on fraud and corruption charges for allegedly issuing permits for payment.
Read the full story in Friday's editions of The Cape Times newspaper.
Barely a week old and the police's directorate for priority crimes, dubbed the Hawks, has already swooped.
On Thursday, officers from the unit, meant to replace the Scorpions, arrested a senior official at the troubled Department of Home Affairs refugee centre in Airport Industria.
The arrest was meant to happen in a huff of publicity as media, invited by the Hawks, streamed to the centre to witness their sharp talons.
But instead, the suspect was driven out of the centre in an unmarked vehicle with blacked out windows, foregoing the "perp (as in perpetrator) walk" made famous by the Scorpions for which they received much flak.
Police did not name the woman.
Spokesperson November Filander said the 32-year-old suspect was arrested after an investigation spearheaded by the new head of the Hawks, Anwa Dramat.
The official is expected to appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate's Court on Friday on fraud and corruption charges for allegedly issuing permits for payment.
Cape Town
