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The former Chief Financial Officer of Crime Intelligence, Major General Solomon Lazarus, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday.
The National Prosecuting said Lazarus, who was responsible for the Secret Service Account (SSA), was convicted of corruption valued at over R200 000.
The spokesperson for the NPA's Investigative Directorate, Sindisiwe Twala, said he was involved in acquiring motor vehicles for Crime Intelligence from Atlantis Motors PTY LTD, a service provider for the front company of crime intelligence, Universal Technical Enterprises CC (UTE).
"Lazarus then derived benefit from 2006 to December 2011, from money which belonged to the state for the purchase of the vehicles," she said.
Twala said
Lazarus purchased vehicles and motorcycles for his children and himself with "all of the benefits valued at a total of R237 939.
In his sentencing judgment, Magistrate Adriaan Bekker said corruption of members of the police could not be tolerated.
The Head of the Investigative Directorate, Advocate Hermione Cronje, welcomed the sentence.
"Today, on International Anti-Corruption Day, we are pleased to have our very first conviction and sentencing since the inception of the ID," Cronje said.
