Duo suspects who allegedly pocketed more than R1 million from the Free State department of justice, have been arrested by the Hawks’ investigation team based in Bloemfontein, yesterday.
Two suspects between the age 35 and 37 face charges of fraud, theft, forgery and uttering.
According to provincial Hawks spokesperson captain Christopher Singo, the two suspects who were working as senior admin clerks at Warden Magistrates’ Court defrauded the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development third party funds received from the clients of the department.
“The suspects were entrusted to receive and bank the money for the department,” says Singo.
“They then used some of the money that they were supposed to bank for their own benefit, the incident took place between the period of 2018 and 2020.
“A case docket was registered and handed over to the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation team based in Bloemfontein for further investigation which culminated to the arrest of the duo yesterday,” addressed Singo.
It is alleged that due to this fraudulent activities, the Justice department was prejudiced and suffered a total loss of more than R1 million.
The suspects are expected to appear before the Bethlehem Magistrates’ Court this morning.
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