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Caracas — A Caracas police officer has been arrested in connection with the slayings of three Venezuelan-Canadian brothers, Marcos Chavez, chief of the Venezuelan judicial police, said Thursday.
The arrested metropolitan police officer was identified as Javier Rafael Pineda Chirinos.
Assailants apparently kidnapped the three Faddoul brothers: John, 17; Kevin, 13; Jason, 12 and their driver at a bogus police checkpoint in late February. Witnesses saw men dressed in police uniforms stop the car and later dismantle the roadside checkpoint after the victims disappeared.
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The Herald Eastern Cape - Port
26 April 2006
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Probe links top police to RDP
TOP Eastern Cape police officers are under investigation in an internal corruption probe involving the purchase and renting out of RDP houses.
The office of the provincial commissioner has confirmed that certain senior officers are being investigated, but warned that the investigation is at “a sensitive stage”.
Among those being investigated are officers working with top-secret crime intelligence information in the police’s provincial head office in Zwelitsha.
Director Marinda Mills, spokesman for the office of the provincial commissioner, said late yesterday that although she could confirm a top-priority internal investigation by the police’s joint anti-corruption task team, no arrests had been made yet and these were only expected within the next two weeks.
The investigation looked into senior police officers illegally buying RDP houses in the Queenstown and East London areas to rent out for profit.
An official in the department of housing in Bhisho said senior officers had used police intelligence to create false identities to qualify for State-funded housing. Only the poorest of the poor, who conform to specific criteria like low income and the fact that they have never owned a house before, may qualify for RDP housing.
“You need the ID of a dead person or someone in prison to create such a profile for yourself.”
The official said the auditor general had alerted the department, as well as investigating units within the police itself.
“There are also government officials involved.”
Housing department spokesman Mbulelo Linda said he was not aware of individual cases, but a task team had been formed to prevent corruption with low-cost housing.
“This is not a provincial problem, but a national one. The national department created an anti-corruption team within the department itself to deal with this,” he said.
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