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Former criminal intelligence chief Richard Mdluli is seen outside the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
Felix Dlangamandla, Gallo Images, Netwerk24
Former criminal intelligence chief Richard Mdluli and his co-defendant Mthembeni Mthunzi have been sentenced to an effective five years in prison for the 1999 kidnapping and assault of Oupa Ramogibe.
In 2019, the two were convicted of assaulting and kidnapping Mdluli’s former lover, Tshidi Buthelezi, her husband, Ramogibe, and a friend Alice Manana in 1998.
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Mthunzi and Mdluli were colleagues at the time of the incident.
Delivering the sentence in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday, Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng said that Mdluli and Mthunzi abused the power and authority entrusted to them as superior policemen.
Mokgoatlheng said the only appropriate sentence for the defendants was a prison sentence.
Both Buthelezi and Ramogibe have since died. Buthelezi died of illness while Ramogibe was shot and killed in 1999.
More to follow.
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