The officers allegedly raped a victim of human trafficking.
One officer allegedly forced the victim to open a fake case in order to mislead investigators.
Two police officers have been arrested in connection with a human trafficking case in Gauteng.
The two senior police officers were arrested on Thursday morning in Vereeniging.
They are expected to face charges of human trafficking and defeating the ends of justice.
The arrests form part of an ongoing investigation into a trafficking in persons' syndicate in the province, in which a medical doctor, Magnus Adelani Osinowo, 31, and his accomplice, Ikechukwu Ononzawa, 32, were apprehended last month. Both have been remanded in custody for allegedly conducting illegal abortions on victims.
Gauteng: Cops nabbed after sex trafficking victim ‘raped repeatedly’
Both the brigadier and captain are alleged to have paid a brothel owner for raping a woman who had been kept as a sex slave
The Hawks have arrested two senior members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) on Thursday, 13 May 2021, for their alleged role in a sex trafficking operation in Vereeniging, south of Johannesburg.
According to the elite crime-busting unit, the two suspects, both aged 57, were regulars at an unidentified brothel where a missing woman was being held hostage and used as a sex slave. Instead of abiding by their oath and coming to her rescue, the officers – a brigadier and captain, forced themselves on the woman, raping her on multiple occasions and paying money to the brothel owner.
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Two high-ranking Gauteng police officers were arrested in the Vaal area on Thursday morning on suspicion of human trafficking.
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It's alleged that the brigadier and captain visited an illegal brothel in Vereeniging where a missing woman was held hostage and raped.
The Hawks in Vereeniging followed a tip-off which led them to the arrest.
"Further investigation revealed that after the victim escaped from the brothel, she reported the matter at the police station and was allegedly forced by one of the suspects to open a staged rape case against a family member in order to divert the investigation focus," said the Gauteng Hawks spokesperson Ndivhuwo Mulamu.