13 TOP COPS RAID ZWEMART OFFICES

MBABANE – Offices of Zwemart Private Investigators (PIs) were yesterday raided by 13 top police officers.

The police team seized two central processing units (CPUs), two laptops, a Nokia 306 cellphone and its memory card, ‘memory stick and a spy camera with its external memory.

These items are suspected to have pictures and visual footage of the incident in which the team of PIs found Matsanjeni North Member of Parliament (MP) Phila Buthelezi in bed with Assistant Master of the High Court Cebile Ngwenya. The team of PIs face charges of breaking into the government house occupied by Ngwenya. Manqoba Nyamane (Senior PI) confirmed that senior police officers arrived at their offices, situated at LM Building next to Lilunga House, carrying a court order that gave them the powers to search the offices and seize information that would help with their investigation.

He said the police arrived at around 8am yesterday and ransacked the place in their bid to gather information linking the office to its recent high profile investigation.

“They said as part of their investigations they were gathering information in connection with the ‘break-in’ in Siteki,” Nyamane said.
He stated that the search at their offices was punctuated by heated arguments as the police made demands that they were not willing to grant. Though the matter was reported at the Siteki Police Station, it was transferred to the Mbabane Police Station, where the investigators were eventually charged.

In earlier reports, the woman who is at the centre of the police investigation (Ngwenya) confirmed opening a case against Zwemart Private Investigators. She said this was after the investigators broke into her house and harassed her. “What I know is that there was a break-in at my house and that I reported the matter to the police,” she said last week. The assistant master of the High Court allegedly refused to implement the Estate zpolicy that was announced by Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Sibusiso Shongwe in Siteki, while Buthelezi is the MP who called for the sacking of the minister for bypassing Parliament when introducing the estate policy.

Four PIs from the establishment were recently charged with crimen injuria for invading the privacy of Ngwenya and Buthelezi.
These are Director of Zwemart, Zweli Martin Dlamini and three of his staffers; Manqoba Nyamane (Senior PI), Nobantu and Siphiwe (both Dlamini). They were charged and later released after Ngwenya, together with Buthelezi, opened a case alleging that the investigators broke into a government house at night and took pictures of them – thereby invading their privacy.

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