A Bangladeshi national tried to bribe members of the police with R2 000 when they found him with contraband cigarettes.
On 12 May members of the Welkom Anti-Crime unit were busy with crime prevention when they received information from Crime Intelligence about illicit cigarettes being offloaded at a tuck shop in Jim Fouché Park, Welkom.
The information was operationalised and the tuck shop owner was approached. The police requested permission to search the property, which he granted. A large quantity of illicit cigarettes were found. The foreign national was then arrested, upon which he attempted to bribe the police officers.
The 36-year-old man was subsequently arrested for possession of illicit cigarettes and bribery. He will appear in the Welkom Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, 14 May.
