Pretoria – Several top police officers, suspected of unlawfully awarding a multi-million rand tender to a company owned by alleged crime kingpin Vusi “Cat” Matlala, have been arrested.
“The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) effected an arrest of 12 senior police officers and a director of a company in relation to the irregular awarding of a tender to Medicare 24,” NPA National Spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said late on Tuesday, 24 March 2026.
“All accused are expected to make their first appearance before the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court on charges of corruption, fraud, and the Contravention of the PFMA [Public Finance Management Act].”
Details of the anomaly were uncovered during the ongoing Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into wrongdoing in the police and judiciary and Parliament’s Ad Hoc committee.
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