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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African anti-graft investigators have
arrested 12 senior police officers on allegations of corruption
and fraud, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The officers appeared later in a court in the capital, Pretoria.
The arrests come while an inquiry continues into allegations of
high-ranking corruption in the South African police. The inquiry
was ordered by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who also
suspended the police minister last year.
A second inquiry by Parliament is also looking at claims that
senior police officers had corrupt relationships with alleged
crime bosses and in some cases allegedly received money from
them for favors.
The arrest of the 12 officers relates to an allegedly corrupt
contract to provide health and wellbeing services to police
officers, the National Prosecuting Authority’s anti-corruption
investigative unit said in a statement. It said a 13th person,
the director of a company, was also arrested.
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