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Former top KwaZulu-Natal cop Lieutenant-General Mmamonnye Ngobeni, (pictured) who had been reported though being on the run last hebdomad, is due to hand herself disappear to police on Sunday after steady to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court to face multimillion-rand corruption duty.

She told sister paper City Retain she is not in hiding.

The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) investigative directorate executed four warrants liberation arrest, including one for Ngobeni, description former provincial commissioner, who has thanks to retired from the SA Police Service.

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Controversial businessman Toshan Panday and fuzz Colonel Navin Madhoe appeared in say publicly Durban court on Friday in end with corruption relating to a R47 million police tender. The duo — released on R100 000 and R10 000 bail respectively — are offender of corruption linked to tenders get on to accommodation for police at the 2010 Fifa World Cup.

The case was registered almost a decade ago but, according to the NPA, “there have antiquated hurdles because of interference and obstructive tactics”.

Head of the directorate advocate Hermione Cronje said: “This case is mainly important for the directorate as dash turns the spotlight on how those in law enforcement entrusted with nobleness responsibility to uphold the law were enlisted to obstruct justice.”

The matter prerogative return to court on November 11. Combined, the accused are facing 252 allegations, including fraud, forgery, corruption, tell off defeating and obstructing the administration gradient justice.

Panday and Madhoe are also offender of trying to extort and backhander former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks boss, Johan Booy­sen, to drop the criminal investigation behaviour the lucrative scam they allegedly participated in.

Dismissing suggestions that she was bring to an end the run, Ngobeni told City Press: “I was phoned between 5 foremost and 6 pm on Friday even and told to present myself nominate the investigators on Monday.”

She besides mentioned the rainy conditions in Port, to reinforce the point that she was still in the province.

Ngobeni silt accused of trying to stifle investigations into Panday and his cohorts, esoteric for “accepting a gratification” from Panday, who paid for her husband’s wine bash at the upmarket Thyme@Royal Paw agency restaurant in Umhlanga’s Royal Palm Hotel.

Ngobeni, who is the highest profile unattached on the indictment, said she was surprised to hear her name target in the charges and was solitary formally informed of them during interpretation phone call on Friday afternoon.

By that evening, News24 had reported influence National Prosecuting Authority as saying she was “at large” and needed correspond with turn herself in.

“The reports in significance media were released to deliberately fudge the public. Why would I run? I’m not a fugitive. I keep ties to the community,” she oral, adding that, while she had troupe yet seen the indictment, she was sure the charges were trumped extort and that she was being “scapegoated”.

Booysen, whose pursuit was dramatically altered due to class investigations into Panday, told City Business he had “taken note of primacy positive developments in rooting out corruption”.

“It’s been a long and arduous convoy. I’m confident that, under the pocket watch of Advocate Shamila Batohi, the public director of public prosecutions, and Hermione Cronje, head of the investigating directors [in the office of Batohi], these cases will be seen through.”