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News24 reports that two more people have been arrested in connection with the murder of senior Gauteng health department finance official Babita Deokaran.
Police minister Bheki Cele confirmed the arrests on Thursday and said that police had also recovered two vehicles and one firearm. “But interesting, it looks like they have been arrested with a lot of cash in their cars. The story was that it was an expensive exercise, where people were getting a lot of money each to pull the mission of killing Babita. I hope now it will be able for [them] to tell us where the cash comes from,” said Cele. Earlier this week, six suspects appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court in connection with the murder. They were charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and possession of unlicensed firearms. Deokaran, died in a hail of bullets last Monday in Winchester Hills, south of Johannesburg. She had been a key witness in an investigation run from Gauteng premier David Makhura’s office into personal protective equipment (PPE) tender corruption. According to the police, a woman who was in the car with Deokaran at the time of the attack was in a “safe place”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Iavan Pijoos at TimesLIVE
See too, Two more suspects arrested in whistleblower Babita Deokaran’s murder case, at EWN
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