The Hawks on Monday said that they had a personal vendetta against church leader Shepherd Bushiri. "People will always tal...
The Hawks on Monday said that they had a personal vendetta
against church leader Shepherd Bushiri.
"People will always talk. Let them talk because we are
here to work and that is our duty‚" said police spokesperson Brig Hangwani
Mulaudzi.
"We don't look at who we are investigating and the
state of the person. If you start doing that‚ you are making a mistake."
He and his wife Mary‚ who run several business enterprises
in South Africa and abroad‚ were arrested on Friday on fraud and money
laundering charges involving more than R15m. Mulaudzi said on Friday that the
arrest took place at a "lavish hotel in Rustenburg".
City Press reported that the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU)‚ a
branch of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)‚ had filed a preservation
order seeking to seize the Bushiris' assets‚ pending the finalisation of the
criminal case against them.
According to the paper‚ the AFU had already filed an
application at the North Gauteng High Court seeking permission to seize the
Bushiris' luxury houses and cars‚ as well as the self-styled prophet’s
Gulfstream private jet‚ which is parked in a private hangar at Lanseria Airport
in Johannesburg.
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