PROVINCIAL police commissioner Lieutenant-General Mmamonnye Ngobeni is in hot water over her alleged relationship with Durban businessman Thoshan Panday.
According to a report in the Mercury, national police spokesman Solomon Mokgale has confirmed that Ngobeni faces disciplinary action and that police were investigating charges of “serious misconduct” of police regulations against her and Colonel Navin Madhoe and Captain Aswin Narainpershad.
It is alleged that Panday allegedly put up the money for a surprise party for Ngobeni’s husand, Brigadier Lucas Ngobeni held at a restaurant in the Royal Palm Hotel, Umhlanga Rocks in 2010.
In earlier media reports it was revealed that Ngobeni had allegedly instructed an investigation of Panday by the Hawks to cease.
Charges of conspiracy to commit fraud and corruption were laid against Panday and Narainpershad in 2011 after they attempted to bribe a policeman to accept false invoices for World Cup accommodation. The charges were provisionally withdrawn in 2013.
In 2011, Madhoe and Panday stood accused of attempting to bribe the then Hawks head, Major-General Booysen, with R2m to quash investigations into the accommodation scam. The charges were withdrawn in 2014.
Dianne Kohler-Barnard, DA’s spokeswoman on police welcomed the findings.
