FOUR ARMY OFFICERS HELD FOR MURDER PLOT.
Two army officers are facing a charge of conspiring to murder a colleague who was investigating their role in the theft of R2 million worth of SA National Defence Force ammunition, police said.
Captain Musa Khaba said that Major Willem Bronkhorst and Captain Andre Goosen appeared in the Empangeni Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, in connection with a plot to kill Major July Menekwane, who was investigating the theft.
They were remanded in custody until their next appearance on June 3.
National police spokeswoman Director Sally de Beer said allegations that the ammunition may have been given to the rightwing Boeremag organisation could not be confirmed, but investigations were continuing. The ammunition was reported missing after an auditors' report was completed at the end of last year, she said.
Khaba said two other senior officers were arrested and appeared in the Kwamsane Magistrate's Court on Wednesday on charges of defeating the ends of justice after they allegedly approached Menekwane and tried to persuade him to withdraw the conspiracy to murder charge.
Lieutenant Colonel Louis van Eeden, the commanding officer at 121 Battalion base in Mtubatuba, northern KwaZulu-Natal, and Major Johannes Labuschagne, a legal adviser at the base, were remanded in custody and would reappear on June 6, Khaba said.
An army spokesman, Major Niko Allie, said the arrest of the four officers was a police matter and the SANDF would take whatever action was appropriate depending on the outcome of the civilian case.
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28 Mai 2003 à 09:58 dans
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