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Original Post Date: 2008-01-10 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
The police were so desperate to get Gauteng Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel behind bars that they defied state policy, lied to the National Prosecuting Authority and refused to accept the opinions of several prosecutors – who told them they didn’t have a case.
Now acting National Prosecuting Authority head Mokotedi Mpshe has expressed “serious concern” about the process followed by police in their bid to obtain an arrest warrant against Nel, the man leading the investigation into National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
And his concern has been echoed by political parties and analysts, who have described the arrest as a witch-hunt.
Meanwhile, Selebi’s spokesperson, Sally de Beer, on Wednesday declined to comment on whether the police boss had been made aware of the Nel investigation and arrest before it was conducted.
In a detailed statement released on Wednesday night, the NPA raised alarm over the fact that the police had failed to get Mpshe’s written permission for Nel to be charged, as required by policy directives in the NPA Act.
The statement also reveals that two weeks after the police had persuaded a magistrate to issue an arrest warrant against Nel, they sent a letter to their liaison in the NPA, advocate Sibongile Mzinyathi, and told him they had “made progress in the investigation and would approach the NPA when further assistance was required”.
“No mention was made that a warrant had been obtained.”
Police investigators then again lied to Mzinyathi when, following media queries about the issuing of the arrest warrant, he contacted them and was told that “they were not aware of any such development, and that when an arrest was imminent, they would inform him and advocate Mpshe”.
The statement claimed that the NPA became aware of the police’s investigation into Nel in September last year – the same month that Nel approached Randburg magistrate Cheryl Loots and obtained a warrant for Selebi’s arrest on charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering and defeating the ends of justice.
The NPA described how the police had repeatedly tried and failed to persuade “several different prosecutors” to apply for an arrest warrant against Nel, all of whom refused “on the basis that there was not sufficient evidence in the docket”.
According to the NPA, Mzinyathi met with the investigating team on October 22 and again indicated that there was not sufficient evidence in the docket.
He was then asked to issue a section 205 subpoena to force a reluctant witness, which The Star has learnt is a former NPA employee, to provide a statement to the police.