Meyiwa case investigator accused of offering cash for cooperation

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Singer Kelly Khumalo at the center of deceased boyfriend , soccer star Senzo Meyiwa murder trial again

Defence attorney Thulani Mngomezulu has alleged that the lead investigator in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case, Bongani Gininda, offered one of the accused R3 million in exchange for cooperating.

Gininda is back in the High Court in Pretoria where a trial-within-a-trial in the case is underway. Five men are on trial for gunning down the Bafana Bafana captain at singer Kelly Khumalo’s parental home in Vosloorus on the east of Johannesburg in October 2014.

The defence is challenging the admissibility of the confession statements that some of the accused allegedly made.

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