Thulani Dlomo, a well-known ally of former president Jacob Zuma, is one of the two former senior members of State Security Agency SSA arrested on Sunday on allegations of mishandling state funds amounting to about R12m.
Investigating Directorate Against Corruption IDAC spokesperson Henry Mamothame said Dlomo and former project manager Patrick Mshothola briefly appeared in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on Monday.
Mshothola, who acted as project manager on various projects within the Chief Directorate Special Operations CDSO of the then SSA, together with his co-accused, Thulani Dlomo, who held the position of Deputy Director: Counterintelligence within the SSA, are being charged on allegations of theft, fraud, forgery and uttering, he said.