Charge McBride for Dramat case – report
POLICE watchdog head Robert McBride should be charged criminally for allegedly tampering with evidence implicating top Hawks bosses Anwa Dramat and Shadrack Sibiya in the rendition scandal.
Dramat, Sibiya and four other Hawks officials should also be charged criminally for kidnapping and defeating the ends of justice, and should face internal disciplinary charges.
These are among criminal charges recommended by Werksmans Attorneys in a report seen by the Sunday Times and understood to have been handed to Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko this week.
Nhleko appointed Werksmans to investigate why findings of an Independent Police Investigative Directorate probe into police renditions of Zimbabweans were altered radically just days after McBride took over Ipid in March last year.
Two of the Zimbabweans were killed in police custody in Zimbabwe, one disappeared without trace and another was allegedly tortured after Hawks officials led by Colonel Lesley “Cowboy” Maluleke allegedly took them over the Beitbridge border post at Musina with forged deportation papers in 2010 and 2011 and handed them over to Zimbabwean officials.
After reviewing case documents and interviewing Ipid, police investigators, McBride and several senior prosecutors assigned to the case, Werksmans concluded that:..
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