Railway cop accused of escorting illicit cigarettes
01 September 2016 - 10:25
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 Custom...
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