...the corruption in the ANC is just unbelievable...
How the sick Zuma patronage killed Crime Intelligence
Are you sure that Zuma or Mbokodo were trained in intelligence or trained in corruption? Reading Jacques Pauw's latest book, one doubts about the former.
''In January 2011, police commissioner Bheki Cele approved a request from Mdluli to appoint an additional 250 undercover managers and agents to infiltrate organised crime syndicates and gather evidence which “cannot be obtained through normal and conventional investigation methods”. It also made provision for the appointment of an additional four brigadiers and thirty colonels.
This was typical Mdluli bullshit – nothing more than a smokescreen for him and his cronies to appoint their wives, girlfriends, sons and daughters in senior positions in the unit. He handed Lazarus, who was responsible for the appointment of
agents and informers from the secret fund, a list of family members who had to be employed.
The Mdluli Seven had between them no knowledge or experience
of the intelligence world. Both Mdluli’s former wife and his new wife were appointed as colonels, his daughter as a lieutenant-colonel and his son as a captain. They all received cars, ranging from Audis to BMWs and Mercedes-Benzes.
Lazarus himself appointed twelve of his family members and friends as agents. Other top policemen followed suit. The most preposterous appointment at Crime Intelligence was that of convicted Durban drug dealer Panganathan “Timmy” Marimuthu and eight of his family members and girlfriends. None of them had
any intelligence or policing background. The South African taxpayer forked out millions upon millions for the upkeep of the Marimuthu mob for just one reason: his closeness to police commissioner Bheki Cele.
Because of his criminal record, Marimuthu didn’t qualify to become a police officer. That is why he was appointed as an informer at a salary of R50 000 per month. He was given a BMW X5 with blue lights while Crime Intelligence rented several of his properties – which were uninhabitable – for R250 000
monthly. Marimuthu’s wife was appointed as a colonel, his daughter and son-inlaw as lieutenant-colonels, his brother as a colonel, his niece as a captain and two of his girlfriends as clerks. The secret account paid R37 000 for the replacement of Timmy’s dental crowns while his daughter claimed R50 000 for the delivery of her child.
The provincial head of Crime Intelligence in KwaZulu-Natal at the time, Maj.-Gen. Deena Moodley, wasn’t told about the appointment of Marimuthu, his family or his girlfriends. He only discovered this when Marimuthu’s son-in-law was arrested for driving around Umhlanga Rocks in a Crime Intelligence BMW
X5 with blue lights flashing.
He was taken to the Durban Central police station where he identified himself as a lieutenant-colonel in Crime Intelligence. He refused to show identification but was released after a call “from the top”. Moodley was astonished. The KwaZulu-Natal branch of Crime Intelligence was at the time conducting an extensive organised crime investigation into
Marimuthu. He was allegedly still involved in drug smuggling and was suspected of importing so-called grey cars into South Africa. Marimuthu didn’t have a licence to import these cheap second-hand cars. Mdluli ordered Moodley to stop investigating Marimuthu. The one day he was a suspect in an organised crime investigation, the next day he was untouchable.
None of Marimuthu’s family members ever reported for duty or submitted any reports, yet they had access to top-secret intelligence.
Jacques Pauw: Our Poisoned Land
