Leonie
Pretorius
01
September 2016
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Cape Town businessman, Owen Keyser, has been sentenced to five years
imprisonment in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate's court on the Cape Flats for
corruption after he was found in possession of more than 40 000 packets of
illegal cigarettes.
Keyser's
sentence has been suspended for five years on condition that he pays R434 000
into the Criminal Assets Recovery Account.
Keyser
has also been sentenced to 36 months correctional supervision which consists of
house arrest, monitoring and reporting to a Correctional Official at the
Community Correction Offices in Mitchells Plain.
Police
caught Keyser who was transporting the illicit goods with a uniformed police
officer, Jerome Hendricks red-handed in Beaufort-West.
NPA
spokesperson, Eric Ntabazalila, says the case against Warrant Officer Hendriks
will resume in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate's Court on the 8th of this month.
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