KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major-General Lesetja Senona testified before the Madlanga Commission about the unsolved R200 million cocaine theft. KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major-General Lesetja Senona told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Thursday that he does not know whether arrests were made in connection with the theft of R200 million worth of cocaine from a Port Shepstone storage facility almost five years ago. Senona said he lost oversight of the investigation into the 2021 Port Shepstone cocaine heist after the case was taken over by the national SAPS office.
He said the docket and inquiry file were transferred to the national office, effectively removing his unit from the case. He said the national office had since established a task team to work on the docket but according to his recollection, it has not reported any breakthrough to date. “I must tell you that it is difficult for me to check the progress because even when the team visited KwaZulu-Natal they never told me they were there,” he told the inquiry, adding that he does not know the current status of the case.
He recounted that on June 22, 2021, a captain from border security contacted his Durban office with information on a possible cocaine shipment at Isipingo depot, near the harbour. He said the information was urgent, so he sent members of his office and Operations Response Services Border policing to the scene.
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