PAY ATTENTION:Free State police arrested a 42-year-old foreign national at a Rouxville roadblock for possessing illicit cigarettes worth R12 million. Image: @SAPoliceService.In a bold attempt to evade law enforcement, a truck driver thought he could fool the police by pretending to rest after a long drive.Driver arrested during a roadblock
Xhariep District police officers were conducting a routine roadblock in the Rouxville area, stopping and searching vehicles. During this operation, they received intelligence about a suspicious truck that had abruptly turned and stopped near a petrol station.The 42-year-old male driver claimed he was from Gauteng en route to the Eastern Cape for a delivery.
Rudland is currently one of Zimbabwe's wealthiest men. In March 2023, Simon Rudland was implicated in an Al Jazeera exposé regarding Zimbabwe's illegal gold trade and money laundering dealings. In 2006, the South African crime-fighting unit Scorpions raided his logistics company, Mavambo, on allegations of illegal cigarette sales and tax evasion.Reitumetse Makwea is a Current Affairs journalist at Briefly News. She has a National diploma, Advanced diploma and Post-graduate diploma in Journalism from the Tshwane University of Technology.