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A 55-year-old suspect sought by the Hawks in Mpumalanga in connection with a R14.7m theft at Eskom has been arrested in the Western Cape, 10 years after being on the lam.

Two Hawks officers will appear in an Eastern Cape court on Friday after they were arrested for alleged corruption.

There was no love lost when the Hawks nabbed a 23-year-old woman for allegedly swindling a victim out of R750,000.

Senior corruption-busting Hawks officials from Gauteng had the tables turned on them when they themselves were arrested for alleged corruption this week. Two Gauteng Hawks officers, Captain Given Makhubela, 42, and 43-year-old Sergeant Jacob Tyantini, who are attached to the Hawks’ serious corruption investigations section in Germiston, appeared before magistrate Shallock Ndengezi at the Mthatha specialised commercial crimes court on Friday on allegations of corruption.

The Hawks in the Eastern Cape have arrested two police officers on charges of corruption in Mthatha.

A Cape Town lawyer swapped his spot in court for the dock after the Hawks arrested him for allegedly attempting to bribe a prosecutor to suppress his client's case.

Two officers were caught in an undercover sting operation after a man complained that a Hawks officer tried to extort him of R450,000 to make an alleged pending case against his company disappear.

The Hawks team investigating the increase in kidnappings of business owners and protection fee rackets has called for the Stutterheim magistrate’s court to deny bail to a 40-year-old extortion accused who is also believed to be connected to a string of kidnappings.

A disgraced Gqeberha accountant has finally confessed to stealing more than R52m from two major retail stores which employed him to manage their books.

An acting police station commander has been arrested in connection with the "theft" of R291,700 from a safe used to secure crime exhibits.