From: Times Live
Dave Chambers
A railway policeman faces trial for providing a blue-light escort to a truck carrying 40,000 packs of illicit cigarettes from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
The warrant officer‚ who was in uniform when he was arrested‚ will go on trial in Cape Town next week after Owen Keyser‚ of Gordon’s Bay‚ admitted paying him to escort a load of contraband Kingdom cigarettes Keyser‚ 55‚ was given a five-year suspended prison sentence on Wednesday in the Mitchells Plain Regional Court for contravening the Customs and Excise Act.
In a plea bargain‚ he was also fined R50,000 for contravening the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act by paying the policeman.
