Warrant Officer Karl Sander of the Hawks told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Monday that police members were complicit in drug dealing in KwaZulu-Natal.
A Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) investigator based in KwaZulu-Natal told the Madlanga Commission on Monday that he believed there was an agenda against him because of the drug-related investigations he had conducted.
Veteran warrant officer Karl Sander said he believed he had become a "thorn in the flesh" of those linked to the drug trade due to his success in disrupting drug syndicates, which would have made him unpopular.
Sander was testifying before the commission about the investigation into the disappearance of more than 500 kilograms of cocaine that was stolen during a break-in at Hawks offices in Port Shepstone in November 2021.
Having never worked at the Port Shepstone office and having no knowledge that the cocaine was stored there, Sander said he could not understand why he was treated as a suspect following the theft.
