ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule and Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi have reportedly been dragged into a high-profile R5mn bribery and murder investigation currently playing out in the Bloemfontein High Court.
Eight men – among them a Bloemfontein businessman, police officers, a soldier and a lawyer – are facing a raft of charges, including murder, conspiracy to murder and defeating the ends of justice, for the death of businessman Louis Siemens in May last year, City Press reported.
The newspaper reported that on the eve of the trial, which started Monday, a letter classified as “top secret” and authored by provincial counter-intelligence revealed the extent of the probe into high-level corruption in the province.
The confidential letter, which City Press says it has seen, cites “the former provincial premier and a serving national minister” as being persons of interest in the investigation into Siemens’ killing.
It further reports that law enforcement
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