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The former Crime Intelligence (CI) boss, Richard Mdluli was released on parole today.
Last year, the Gauteng High Court issued an arrest warrant for Mdluli on 04 March 2021. The warrant emanated after his failure to appear before the court several times due to ill health.
Initially, the charges against the ex-CI head included his involvement in the kidnapping, assaulting and intimidating of his customary-law wife, Tshidi Buthelezi and Oupa Ramogibe in 1998. Ramogibe was married to Buthelezi.
Mdluli was also charged with Ramogibe’s murder which occured in 1999. This charge was however later on withdrawn.
Other charges that Mdluli faced were related to the conspicuous abuse of the police intelligence slush fund along with his co-accused, Heine Barnard and Solomon Lazarus, in his terms as a CI head. It was discovered that the accused used the funds to pay for private trips to China and Singapore.
The private usage of witness protection houses and their conversion to personal use by the accused, plus the leasing out of Mdluli’s private residence to the state to pay his bond, are some of the charges that the accused faced.