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The Gqeberha high court has granted the Hawks Eastern Cape's priority crime specialised investigation unit a forfeiture order worth R158 000 in a bribery matter involving two police officers.

A 33-year-old man has been fined R100,000 or two years' imprisonment, half of which was suspended for three years, for R11.5m in tax evasion.

The man submitted fraudulent Value Added Tax (VAT) invoices to the South African Revenue Services

An assistant director of financial management in a government department is facing tender fraud charges after allegedly using state funds to procure bags inscribed with the logo of his church.

The Hawks have arrested eight people, including a former human settlements director and city manager in the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipality, in connection with a Covid-19 toilet tender.

A man has appeared in court in the Eastern Cape on charges related to dealing in commercial explosives allegedly used in ATM bombings and cash-in-transit heists.

The Gqeberha specialised commercial crimes court sentenced a bookkeeper for Road Accident Fund (RAF) fraud amounting to R500,000 on Friday.

The Hawks said the university’s former financial administrator Wendy Zimasa Xabiya was convicted this week after it was found she stole R480,000.

A doctor in the Eastern Cape who wrote medical reports for more than a decade recommending 75 “undeserving clients” to law firms has appeared in court for allegedly defrauding the Road Accident Fund.

A conman was found guilty of fraud after he swindled R350,000 out of a victim.