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Original Post Date: 2008-01-10 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
[I would not be surprised if there is a political agenda behind this. I do not trust the Mbeki & Selebi combo. They are slimeballs. Jan]
The legal team of arrested Gauteng Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel has not yet began an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday for his release as the court still has to hear other matters on Wednesday morning.
“The police did not play open cards when they asked for his arrest,” said Nel’s lawyer Ian Small Smith shortly before the application. Nel was not present for the application.
Nel, the Regional Head of the Directorate of Special Operations or the Scorpions, was arrested at his Pretoria home by about 20 armed police officers in front of his wife and children around 9pm on Tuesday.
Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini confirmed the arrest and said Nel faced five charges including fraud, defeating the ends of justice and perjury.
He was likely to appear in the Pretoria magistrate’s court on Friday.
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Tlali Tlali said the NPA, of which the Scorpions is a component, was aware of Nel’s arrest and would release a statement later on Wednesday.
In an interview with Talk Radio 702, Acting NPA head Mokotedi Mpshe said he was taken aback by the arrest.
Mpshe told the radio station that while he did know about the police investigation into Nel, he was “shocked and disappointed” by the arrest.
Mpshe said he did not believe the Scorpions’ case that, Nel was heading into police commissioner Jackie Selebi, would be affected by his arrest.
According to the warrant of arrest, Smith said, the charges against Nel were corruption and defeating the ends of justice between 2004 and 2005.
“The warrant was issued on the 22nd of November 2007 on a case registered in September 2007 for offences allegedly committed between 2004-2005,” he said.
“The police elected to withhold the warrant until the 7th of January before they arrested Advocate Nel under these peculiar, abusive and suspicious circumstances.”
Wednesday’s application, said Smith in an earlier statement, was “on the basis that the warrant of arrest is malicious and that the police obtained the warrant in bad faith. His subsequent detention is unlawful and the court would be urged to order his release.”
Nel led the investigation into the shooting of mining magnate Brett Kebble and led the state’s probe into alleged criminal activities by Selebi.
His arrest comes as pressure mounts on the NPA to disclose their decision on whether or not Selebi had a case to answer.
On December 16 the NPA said it had made the decision following a report received from a panel tasked with reviewing the criminal charges against Selebi, who is also the current head of Interpol.
Selebi has come under fire for his involvement with convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti, who stands accused of Kebble’s murder.
An arrest warrant against Selebi was cancelled in September last year. Nel obtained it from the Randburg Chief Magistrate on September 10, for Selebi’s arrest for alleged corruption, fraud, racketeering and defeating the ends of justice.
In November last year it emerged that Nel had been the focus of a police investigation headed by one of Gauteng’s top policemen, Commissioner Richard Mdluli.
Mpshe had held a high level Scorpions meeting in Cape Town where the case against Nel and the possible reasons behind it, topped the agenda.
Two of the complaints against Nel were made by one of his own investigators, Andrew du Plooy.
Du Plooy, who helped to expose allegedly corrupt former members of the unit, Cornwell Tshavhungwa and Geophrey Ledwaba, opened a docket against Nel and investigator Piet Pieterse at the Silverton police station in Pretoria in 2007.
This came after Du Plooy filed a complaint against the two men in 2006. – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080109103620807C811279