Police officer arrested over bribery

A WINDHOEK police officer was arrested last week by the Anti-Corruption Commission for allegedly taking a N$4 000 bribe.

Sergeant Fillemon Garuseb (31), a police officer who was stationed at the Katutura Police Station, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Friday in a sting operation in Windhoek. The incident was recorded in a video circulating on social media, where Garuseb is seen taking the bribe in a truck.

According to a statement by the ACC issued on Wednesday, the operation was aimed to catch him in the act after the graft agency had received a tip that Garuseb had taken a bribe of N$400 from a truck driver at Rehoboth in a previous incident.

The truck Garuseb was inspecting at the time allegedly appeared to have a counterfeited license disc and operation disc displayed on the screen.

After that report was made to the ACC, the sting operation was organised to catch him in the act, and it succeeded when he took the bait and accepted a bribe of N$4 000. He was then arrested.

“Sergeant Garuseb appeared in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Monday, 21 October 2019. He was denied bail, and his case was postponed to 19 November 2019 for further investigations,” read the statement.

The officer was out on bail of N$2 000 at the time of his recent arrest for a charge of bribery in a previous case.