Three specialist Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department officers who allegedly kidnapped a supermarket employee and demanded a bribe for his release, have been charged with kidnapping, theft, extortion and defeating the ends of justice. | CebohNyambose
IPID arrested three specialist Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department officers for allegedly kidnapping and bribing a supermarket employee.Three Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department officers have been arrested on charges of kidnapping, theft, extortion and defeating the ends of justice.
It is alleged that the officers released the man after he paid them and then lied in their statements. IPID spokesperson Lizzy Suping said the three officers conducted a search operation at Smokes and Kings Supermarket in Rynfield, Benoni, in July last year and that boxes of cigarettes worth R25 000 were seized.
She added that the cigarettes were loaded onto an EMPD van and the supermarket employee was put in a separate official vehicle.The officers then drove to Northmead with the supermarket employee under the pretext that he was [under arrest].The man handed over R200 notes he had in his possession, Suping said, and was then dropped off in Northmead, near to the freeway.The officers allegedly booked two boxes of cigarettes in at the Benoni police station.
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