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Warders, Home Affairs officials in dock for allegedly freeing foreign drug mules

Source: The Star, 19/11/2018

They will be joined in the dock by the inmates, all of whom are
foreign nationals who had been arrested for drug trafficking.
According to a source close to the investigation, the scheme
unravelled when one of the female drug mules was arrested in 2016.
Police had received information that a woman inmate had allegedly
been impregnated by a prison warder from the Johannesburg Prison and
subsequently wrongfully released on parole. The woman had allegedly
been kept in a private cell - allegedly for prison warder to have
easy access to her.
When the woman fell pregnant, the warder is alleged to have hatched a
scheme to have her illegally released on an early parole. Instead of
being deported, she was allegedly taken to a house in Soweto and she
later aborted the baby.
Police traced her to the Soweto house where she was later arrested
and further investigations revealed an intricate plot that had seen
many other inmates fraudulently released on parole.
`One by one we found them in different locations around Johannesburg.
They were in houses in Soweto, Hillbrow and Yeoville,` the source
said.
According to the source, it was discovered that after the inmates
were illegally released Home Affairs officials - who were in cahoots
with the plotters - did not take the inmates back to Lindela to be
deported to their home countries.
`Both the prison warders and Home Affairs officials shared the money
that the inmates paid for their unlawful release,` the source said.
While the inmates have been charged with escaping from unlawful
custody, the home affairs officials and prison warders face charges
of corruption and aiding and abetting the illegal release of
prisoners.

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