Overview
- Investigators from Gauteng Counter-Intelligence Operations used J50 arrest warrants over the weekend to detain Major-General Feroz Khan, Major-General Ebrahim Kadwa and businessman Tariq Downes.
- The three accused, who appeared Monday in Kempton Park, were granted R20,000 bail each and the case was postponed to July 14 for further investigation.
- The charges include unlawful dealing and possession of precious metals, defeating or obstructing the course of justice, corruption, and contraventions of South Africa’s precious-metals laws.
- Prosecutors say Downes lacked permits to carry precious metals and that Khan and Kadwa ordered his release after he claimed to be an undercover agent in a non-existent operation.
- The matter forms part of a broader SAPS corruption probe focused on organised mineral theft and internal power struggles within top policing ranks.