Exhibit · Equipment
The polygraph machine
The lie-detector W/O Sander was subjected to over the missing cocaine - a test later found flawed.
Illustration, not evidenceWhat it is
A polygraph (lie-detector) machine of the kind Warrant Officer Karl Sander was subjected to over the missing 541kg of cocaine, the same period in which he says his office coffee machine was taken. An administrative review later found the test procedurally flawed: the examiner was stopped from conducting further examinations, and Sander was effectively exonerated. The result that cleared him had been withheld from him.
Why it matters
The polygraph is the instrument of the alleged internal targeting of a whistleblowing officer. That a test used to cast suspicion on Sander was later judged invalid - while he was on leave when the cocaine went missing - anchors the inquiry's thread that he was pressured and sidelined rather than implicated.
In the record
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Sources
Where this comes from
- IOL: Polygraph scandal collapses - Hawks' Sander cleared as Madlanga Commission reveals faulty test in R200m drug theft
- IOL: 'My only safe space was my coffee machine' - Hawks officer continues explosive testimony
Illustration, not a photograph of real evidence. Generated to depict an object described in the commission record.