Former head of SIU in Gauteng sentenced to imprisonment for stealing RAF funds

The former head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) in Gauteng, Sifiso Philip Kunene (54), has been sentenced to six years imprisonment by the Durban Regional Court specialising in commercial crimes, for theft of trust funds.The court found that between August 2014 and March 2015, Kunene unlawfully stole R226 790,00 of Precious Swartling’s money which was entrusted to him as an attorney, when he was working as a director at Kunene Masango Incorporations. The money was paid out by the Road Accident Fund (RAF).The State said Kunene kept on lying to Swartling about her funds not being…