Pastor Shepherd Bushiri of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church has been arrested, mere hours after the CRL Rights Commission cleared him of responsibility for a deadly stampede at his church in Pretoria, in which three people died.
The ECG church said in a statement that he was arrested by the Hawks on charges of fraud and moneylaundering.
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