JOHANNESBURG - Five employees of Emfuleni Municipality have been arrested in connection with allegations of fraud, theft and tampering with essential infrastructure.
The arrests, conducted by Gauteng's Political Killings Task Team, follow Friday's takedown operation in Vanderbijlpark.
The suspects are attached to the Revenue and Electrical Departments.
Preliminary investigations indicate that the suspects operated a scheme in which they misrepresented themselves to municipal clients as authorised officials who could reconnect electricity supplies.
Clients were then allegedly instructed to pay various amounts of money directly into the suspects’ bank accounts.
The five arrested suspects are expected to make their first appearance in court tomorrow.