Cape Town – A former Cape Town police officer was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the Blue Downs regional court for a R2.3 million cash-in-transit robbery.
Reports said that Sandile Edward Mroqoza, 40, who was a Nyanga police constable at the time, and his accomplices robbed a G4S cash van in Kraaifontein in May 2016.
The cash was found in Mroqoza’s fridge, reports said.
IOL reported that Mroqoza and accomplices had pulled over a cash-in-transit vehicle and robbed the security guards at gunpoint and fled with R2.3 million in cash.
“It is reported that G4S members were approached by a police van fitted with blue lights and marked Nyanga Vispol.
“The SAPS vehicle forced the truck to stop,” Zinzi Hani of the Hawks was quoted as saying.
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She said two suspects dressed in police uniforms and four other suspects in civilian clothing alighted from the back.
“The suspects threatened the driver of the armoured vehicle with firearms and forced him to open the back of the vehicle. They reversed the SAPS vehicle with its back to the G4S truck whereby they emptied the drop-safes.” Hani was quoted as saying.
The driver and crewmen’s firearms were taken, reported TimesLIVE.
According to Hani, the crewmen were slightly injured after being hit on the head with a firearm.
“An amount of over R2.3m was taken. Through an intensive investigation, information was followed up on May 4 2016 and a SAPS constable stationed at Nyanga SAPS was arrested.” Hani was quoted as saying.
She said a black bag containing cash hidden inside a fridge was recovered at Mroqoza’s house.
“Further investigation … established that Mroqoza used the SAPS van which indicated that the vehicle was on the crime scene.”
He was convicted of robbery with aggravating circumstances and court declared Mroqoza unfit to possess a firearm.
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