A former police administrative clerk was sentenced to an effective eight-year jail term for corruption by the Johannesburg specialised commercial crimes court on Friday
Vasvanthan Govender’s duties included updating dockets on the police CAS system, ensuring case dockets were assigned to investigating officers and fingerprints forwarded to the local criminal record centre.
On March 30 2022, Govender solicited and received a bribe of R3,500 from an accused, Soondaram Naidoo, who was charged with culpable homicide after a nine-year-old child was accidentally killed.
“He promised Naidoo that the docket was destroyed to abort prosecution. The accused reported the matter to the authorities and Govender was arrested,” National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwane said.
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