The Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) has sought to clarify its Monday decision to provisionally withdraw the case against former Acting Police Commissioner, Khomotso Phahlane and his co-accused.
This follows the decision by the Acting Investigating Director Ntuthuzelo Vanara to look into certain aspects of the case before re-enrolling it.
The directorate has insisted that the matter had already been subject to the Review Panel and was found to have been properly authorised and falling within IDAC’s mandate.
IDAC Spokesperson Henry Mamothame denied that Phahlane was only charged for flouting the Public Finance Management Act.
“For us, we would not want to ventilate the merits or demerits of any particular case. Such things will be ventilated in a trial court, when this matter is reinstated. We will ventilate, with proof based on the evidence that we’ve collected, how he’s connected and linked to this matter. And it has emerged from the interviews that he did that he indicated that he’s charged for PFMA. We do have a charge of corruption and fraud leveled against him. So, the link will come when all this is ventilated in a trial court,” says Mamothame.
