{"id":40855,"date":"2026-07-28T10:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40855"},"modified":"2026-07-28T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T08:25:01","slug":"ndpp-withdraws-corruption-case-against-sas-crime-intelligence-head-co-accused","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ndpp-withdraws-corruption-case-against-sas-crime-intelligence-head-co-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"NDPP withdraws corruption case against SA&#8217;s Crime Intelligence Head, co-accused"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP), advocate Andy Mothibi has directed that corruption charges against SA Police Service Crime Intelligence Head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo and six co-accused be withdrawn before plea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The decision follows representations by the accused and advice from the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) which says its investigation is not yet complete.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says the withdrawal is not a final decision on the merits of the case and investigations will continue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It adds that the matter may only be re-enrolled with the written approval of the National Director after the investigation is finalised and the accused are afforded a further opportunity to make representations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40856,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-40855","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA Police Service Crime Intelligence Head Lieutenant-General Dumisani Khumalo","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40857,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40855\/revisions\/40857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}