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Contractor arrested for R1.4m bribery in undercover operation
Cape Times
|March 05, 2026
A SERVICE provider for the City has been arrested after offering a senior City official a R1.4 million bribe.
The 51-year-old suspect was arrested during an undercover operation at the Watercrest Mall in Somerset West on Tuesday.
The operation forms part of an ongoing probe into tender fraud within the municipality.
Police spokesperson, Brigadier Novela Potelwa, said the senior municipal officer rejected the bribe from a service provider who renders services to the City and instead alerted police detectives who initiated an undercover operation that resulted in the arrest of the suspect as well as seizure of the alleged bribe money.
This story is from the March 05, 2026 edition of Cape Times.
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