Police informant, Tumelo Nku, said tipped off traffic police inspector, Samuel Mashaba, about the Aeroton drug matter.
Businessman and police informant Tumelo Nku said Crime Intelligence Head, Major General Feroz Khan, ordered his arrest after discovering that he was the whistleblower behind the 2021 Aeroton drug bust.
Nku told the Madlanga Commission on Thursday that Khan acted against him after he disclosed his role in providing information that triggered one of the country’s largest drug seizures.
In July 2021, police intercepted between 715kg and 751kg of cocaine hidden inside a shipping container at a warehouse in Aeroton, south of Johannesburg.
The haul was valued at about R300-million.
