Brixton SAPS constable Tebogo Rasejane, 29, accused of recruiting illegal immigrants for truck-hijacking syndicate
2010-10-28 VANDERBIJLPARK. A SA police-constable of Brixton police station in Johannesburg, appeared in the Vanderbijlpark magistrate’s court together with four other black males – originally from Mozambique and Malawi – who police claim are part of a nationwide truck-hijacking syndicate.
Beeld journalist André Damons reported that the case against SAPS constable Tebogo Rasejane, 29 of the Brixton police-station; George Yassim, 24, Frank Yassim, 23, Bennet Kuzwayo, 33 and Giro Ubisse, 42, was postponed to the week of November 1 – 5 in the same courtroom.
Police spokesman colonel Lungelo Dlamini confirmed that constable Rasejane was arrested while on duty at the Brixton police station. The constable and another colleague and two other men allegedly were recruiting illegal immigrants for the truck-hijacking syndicate. They are still searching for the other police-officer.
The four hijackers who allegedly worked with Rasejane were arrested on Tuesday at the Barrage in Vereeniging while driving a hijacked truck carrying cigarettes valued at R1,5-milion. The arrested men claimed that they had been recruited by on-duty police-officers. The truck was enroute from Johannesburg to Bloemfontein when it was hijacked at gunpoint near the Grasmere Tollgate. The driver and his assistant were forced into a Volkswagen Golf car and kidnapped – eventually dumped in the middle of Johannesburg’s CBD… near the Brixton police station.
The SAPS’ organised-crime unit stopped the hijacked truck at the Barrage in Vereeniging and arrested two men. Their ‘enquiries’ led to the arrests of two other men in Vrededorp Johannesburg and the police-constable’s arrest.
Dlamini said they were still seeking a fifth man who was reportedly hiding in a house in Kruger Street, Langlaagte. This man however had fled by the time the police arrived – but they did confiscate a container with medical equipment worth many thousands of rounds in a storage-area of the house. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Konstabel-werf-glo-vir-kapingsindikaat-20101028
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