The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) has confirmed it is investigating allegations of perjury laid against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.
Hawks spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi said the DPCI was investigating the matter after it received a formal complaint registered at Ocean View SAPS in Cape Town.
National Head of the DPCI, Lieutenant General Godfrey Lebeya, confirmed the existence of allegations of perjury and defeating the ends of justice on Wednesday morning at a conference on fraud Johannesburg.
Lebeya said the case will focus on the complaint filed by Advocate Paul Hoffman from the anti-corruption pressure group Accountability Now.
The lobby group laid criminal charges of perjury and defeating the ends of justice against Mkhwebane; simultaneously lodging a maladministration complaint against her with the very office she heads, the public protector’s office.
Mkhwebane’s spokesperson Oupa Segalwe described the complaint laid against the public protector at the Office of the Public Protector
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