Hawks warrant officer, Karl Sander, has been cleared of the claims that he participated in the drug theft in 2021.
Hawks Warrant Officer Karl Sander broke down at the Madlanga Commission on Monday after being told that a disputed polygraph test linked to him had been declared invalid, effectively clearing him of suspicion in a case that has shadowed him for years.
Sander was previously implicated in allegations surrounding the 2021 theft of 541kg of cocaine, valued at more than R200 million, from a Hawks storage facility in Port Shepstone.
This placed him under intense internal scrutiny within the police service.
Evidence leader Lee Seegels-Ncube told the Madlanga Commission that an administrative review found serious procedural failures by the polygraph examiner, rendering the results unreliable and triggering a formal investigation into noncompliance.
