Western Cape’s specialised commercial crimes court in Bellville has
sentenced a 35-year-old man to four years’ imprisonment on a charge of
corruption.
Although two years will be
suspended, Nkokelo Sarile is to effectively spend four years in jail for the
six year he was sentenced to.
The perpetrator had also been
declared him unfit to possess a firearm.
According to the provincial
spokesperson for the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) Zinzi
Hani, Sarile’s sentence follows his failed attempt to bribe a police officer
with R2 000 in exchange for the release of his impounded vehicle.
Hani said the vehicle had been
seized after being used in the commission of a crime in a separate matter.
Sarile’s was locked up following
a R1 500 bail following by continually delays in his corruption case as he
constantly changed legal representatives.
by Everngelista Muza
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