MBABANE:Gauteng High Court Judge Portia Dipuo Phahlane has been released on fifty thousand Rands(R50,000) bail on Wednesday afternoon on allegations she accepted a bribe worth millions of rand in a long-running church leadership dispute, IOL News reported.
Phahlane and three(3) others, one of them being her son, were arrested on Tuesday night by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation(Hawks).
It has been reported that, the arrests form part of a major corruption and money-laundering investigation linked to the succession dispute within the International Pentecost Holiness Church(IPHC), the group appeared in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Wednesday morning.
“The suspects are aged between 32 and 64. They face charges including corruption and money laundering.
Phahlane, appointed as a judge in 2021. Her arrest relates to allegations that she received payments in exchange for favourable rulings in the IPHC succession battle”, reads the IOL News report in part.
Gauteng High Court Judge Portia Phahlane arrested for corruption, released on R50,000.00 bail(pic:X).