A multidisciplinary team consisting the HAWKS, SAPS’ K9 and DAFF, executed a search and seizure warrant at a farm in Vredenburg on Wednesday morning, culminating in the arrest of six suspects aged between 31 and 48 for running an illegal abalone facility.
Equipment and abalone with an estimated value of over R2.5 Million was seized. The continued identification and dismantlement of such illegal facilities has a direct bearing on addressing the plundering of the country’s precious marine resources, we shall continue with these raids unabatedly. We would like to further urge the public to work closely with us in identifying possible illegal facilities.
The six are expected to appear in the Vredenburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday 20, October 2016, to answer to charges in contravention of the living marine resources Act
