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A senior correctional officer who had paid R1,000 into the bank account of a co-accused of underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack failed in his bid to get his job back after the Western Cape Labour Court affirmed that his dismissal was fair.
At the time of his dismissal in 2019, Wongama Mbombo was employed as a senior correctional officer and head of the Emergency Support Team (EST) at Pollsmoor Correctional Centre in the Western Cape.
Mbombo - who maintained his innocence during internal disciplinary proceedings - faced three charges, which heard details of how he, in charges one and two, had made two payments of R500 each to Janick Adonis’s bank account on October 6, 2018, and November 1, 2018.
In a third charge which he was found not guilty of, it was alleged that, between June 4, 2018, and January 14, 2019, Mbombo allegedly unlawfully removed, or caused the removal of, Adonis from Pollsmoor Medium A Correctional Centre to the Area Commissioner's office and guest house without lawful authority, in contravention of Section 116 of the Correctional Services Act.
