{"id":49854,"date":"2023-06-14T21:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/court-hears-questions-on-how-trap-to-catch-npa-boss-in-bribery-sting-was-authorised"},"modified":"2023-06-14T22:38:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T22:38:56","slug":"court-hears-questions-on-how-trap-to-catch-npa-boss-in-bribery-sting-was-authorised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/court-hears-questions-on-how-trap-to-catch-npa-boss-in-bribery-sting-was-authorised","title":{"rendered":"Court hears questions on how trap to catch NPA boss in bribery sting was authorised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>When was the undercover operation authorised to catch former Mpumalanga prosecutions boss Matric Luphondo allegedly paying a bribe to have a criminal case disappear?<\/p>\n<p>This was the question which took centre stage in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, where Luphondo and his co-accused, former head of the Mpumalanga human settlements department, Kebone Masange, are on trial on charges of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The charges emanate from an undercover operation where Luphondo and Hawks official Ayanda Plaatjie allegedly bribed a senior prosecutor, advocate Andrew Mphaga, to withdraw a fraud and contravening the Immigration Act case against Masange.<\/p>\n<p>Plaatjie died in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The court is currently hearing evidence in a trial within a trial as Luphondo has challenged the authorisation for the operation, the entrapment itself and the alleged evidence obtained.<\/p>\n<p>The investigating officer, Colonel Silindile Ngcobo, was the State&#8217;s second witness in the trial within a trial.<\/p>\n<p>Ngcobo testified she had received a call from Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) advocate Vernon Nemaorani on 17 March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>She met with Nemaorani and Mphaga, who relayed he had been bribed by Plaatjie to withdraw a criminal case against Masange.<\/p>\n<p>Ngcobo said she registered an inquiry docket, and a verbal authorisation was given by Nemaorani for an operation to be conducted with Plaatjie being the target.<\/p>\n<p>On 19 March 2021, she added she was called back to the DPP&#8217;s offices in Pretoria where Mphaga said he had been approached again to drop the criminal case against Masange, this time by Luphondo.<\/p>\n<p>Ngcobo told the court another verbal authorisation was given to add Luphondo as a target, but there was no need for her to open another inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>She said the application for the sting operation was later reduced to writing on 24 March 2021.<\/p>\n<p><b>An honest mistake<\/b><\/p>\n<p>During cross-examination, advocate Danie Do\u0308rfling SC pointed out in Ngcobo&#8217;s statement, she said the operation was registered and authorised on 23 March.<\/p>\n<p>Ngcobo said it was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Do\u0308rfling said Nemaorani also mentioned 23 March in his affidavit and chalked it down to a typing error, maintaining the operation was registered and authorised on 17 March.<\/p>\n<p>Do\u0308rfling questioned that both Ngcobo and Nemaorani registered the date as 23 March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Was it mere coincidence,&#8221; Do\u0308rfling asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From my side, it was an honest mistake,&#8221; Ngcobo responded.<\/p>\n<p>Do\u0308rfling put it to the witness 23 March was likely the date the operation was authorised.<\/p>\n<p>If this was the case, the sting was in operation before it was registered or authorised.<\/p>\n<p><b>Alleged crimes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Luphondo and Masange have been charged with corruption, defeating the ends of justice and conspiracy to commit corruption.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged Luphondo and Plaatjie bribed Mphaga to withdraw a fraud and contravening the Immigration Act case against Masange.<\/p>\n<p>Masange is accused of being in South Africa illegally and using fraudulent documents in his application for the head of department position at the human settlements department.<\/p>\n<p>After Mphaga was approached, he allegedly told his supervisor, who authorised a sting operation against Plaatjie and later Luphondo.<\/p>\n<p>During this operation, Luphondo allegedly met up with the prosecutor and handed him an 18-year-old bottle of Glenfiddich whisky, valued at R1 550, and R5 000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly also told the prosecutor there would be more.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Plaatjie is said to have contacted the prosecutor, asking for a meeting in Pretoria, where he allegedly handed the prosecutor R28 000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>The trial continues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. 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