Fallout
expected as Selebi trial starts - 4 October
National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) prosecutors last week took
drug dealer Glenn Agliotti on a trial test run, firing questions
at him to see if he was ready to face off with the lawyers of
his old mate Jackie Selebi. The Sunday Independent also
understands that former national police commissioner Selebi
spent hours with his lawyers last week, finalising his defence
against the corruption case the NPA is expected to put to him
when his trial begins in the Johannesburg High Court tomorrow.
- IOL website
Selebi
pleads not guilty - 5 October
In a session that lasted barely 30 minutes, Jackie Selebi
pleaded not guilty to two counts of corruption and one of
defeating the ends of justice. - IOL
website
SA
trial will 'blow lid' on corruption in judiciary - 6 October
South Africa's former chief of police claimed that he was the
victim of a "grand conspiracy" as a trial got under
way yesterday that could reveal the extent of corruption in the
country's judicial and criminal systems. Jackie Selebi, who is
also a former head of Interpol, is accused of taking bribes from
organised crime bosses, one of whom has been implicated in the
murder of one of South Africa's richest men. - The
Independent website
Selebi
sticks to set-up claim - 5 October
The process to reveal the alleged double life of Jackie Selebi,
South Africa's former Police Commissioner and former Interpol
head, commenced yesterday in the South Gauteng High Court with
him pleading fabrication, manipulation and a hidden agenda. He
denied that "any conduct on his part amounted to the abuse
of a position of authority or a breach of trust, or violation of
a legal duty". Any dodgy deals, he claimed, were on the
side of former National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP),
Bulelani Ngcuka and the now defunct Scorpions. - The
Citizen website
Why
is Jackie Selebi’s putting on such a curious defense? - 6
October
Tthe claim by Selebi that he was being prosecuted after
discovering that Pikoli and his predecessor, Bulelani Ngcuka,
had improper business dealings with dodgy businessmen, does (at
least at first glance) seem curious from a legal
perspective. Selebi made these allegations not in an attempt to
have the case against him thrown out. In the light of the SCA
judgment in the Zuma case that a prosecution does not become
unlawful "merely" because charges were brought for an
ulterior purpose – as long as the State brought the charges in
order to secure a criminal conviction – this is a wise move.
But why is Selebi making these claims as part of his defence? Is
he making a legal argument or is he rather playing a
political game in order to garner sympathy by attacking two men
who are rather unpopular with the crowd currently in charge of
the country? It is difficult to say. - Pierre de Vos on the Constitutionally
Speaking website
Top
Scorpions no longer Selebi witnesses - 5 October
Jackie Selebi's prosecutors have more than doubled their list of
potential witnesses against him - but cut several prominent
Scorpions investigators from the final line-up. The witness
list's new additions include the former police commissioner's
alleged girlfriend, Nontombi Matshoba, acting prosecuting boss
Mokotedi Mpshe, more than a dozen top police officials and
controversial businessman and fugitive from justice Billy
Rautenbach. Police top brass on the witness list include deputy
national commissioner Tim Williams, crime intelligence boss
Mulangi Mphego and head of detectives Rayman Lalla. - IOL
website
Selebi
playing victim, says Pikoli - 5 October
Axed prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli on Monday afternoon accused
former police chief Jackie Selebi of attempting to "deflect
attention away from the very serious charges he is facing"
and create the impression that he [Selebi] is a
"victim". This comes after Selebi told the South
Gauteng High Court on Monday he was being prosecuted after
discovering that Pikoli and his predecessor, Bulelani Ngcuka,
had improper business dealings with dodgy businessmen. - Mail
& Guardian website
6
October 2009
Statement
from Pikoli's lawyers. - IOL
website
More
claims against Ngcuka at Selebi trial - 6 October
Billy
Rautenbach told Agliotti he had information incriminating Ngcuka
that Selebi could use. Rautenbach gave him a file which
contained a letter from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)
addressed to Rautenbach's attorney in London, signed by Ngcuka.
"He wanted me to hand the document to the accused as it
would serve good purpose for Billy Rautenbach and to discredit
Bulelani Ngcuka. I handed it to the accused. He said he would
look into the matter", said Agliotti. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Ngcuka
rejects Selebi corruption claim : full text - 6 October
This morning the former national police commissioner, Mr Jackie
Selebi, an accused in the
South Gauteng High Court made startling allegations of
corruption against me during his plea explanation. Although I,
as former national director of prosecutions and an officer of
the court, would ordinarily ignore many of these assertions
which are seek to create a sideshow. In this instance, however,
I have reluctantly decided to respond to the allegations as they
emanate from a very senior former law enforcement officer. I
reject all these allegations with contempt. - Times
Live website
Agliotti
'sympathised' with Selebi - 6 October
Agliotti began his testimony into his relationship with Selebi
which he described as "good and cordial". He told the
court how he "sympathised" with Selebi, at the time
Minister of Social Welfare and Devlopment, who was tasked with
"relocating a large number of ANC members that were in
exile. - IOL website
'Agliotti
charged $1m to access Selebi' - 6 October
Convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti charged slain mining
magnate Brett Kebble a $1-million "consulting fee" for
his access to former top cop Jackie Selebi, the High Court in
Johannesburg heard on Tuesday. Agliotti testified how he was
introduced to Kebble, his father Roger Kebble, and Kebble's
confidante John Stratton by their head of security, Paul
Stemmet. - IOL website
Agliotti
warned not to incriminate himself - 6 October
The State warned convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti on Tuesday
that he could incriminate himself while testifying in the
corruption trial of former top cop Jackie Selebi. Addressing
Judge Meyer Joffe, prosecutor Gerrie Nel asked that the court
"warn the witness" that "he may be asked
questions where he may incriminate himself and if he answers
truthfully the court may grant him indemnity". - IOL
website
Agliotti
spill the beans - 6 October
From R225 000 in US$100 dollar bills for helping Zimbabwean
businessman with a warrant of arrest against him to Louis
Vuitton shoes from Hong Kong - Glenn Agliotti continued to spill
the beans on the bribes he alleges to have handed over to Jackie
Selebi. After court proceedings resumed after lunch today, self
confessed drug dealer Agliotti detailed how he became the middle
man between Rautenbach - who was, at the time, a fugitive from
justice in South Africa - and the former police commissioner. - IOL
website
Agliotti
paid to 'sort out' Rautenbach's problems - 7 October
Former Hyundai boss Billy Rautenbach allegedly paid $100 000
for his "problems" in South Africa to disappear.
Rautenbach, who is set to testify in the corruption trial of
former police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, featured
prominently in the evidence of Selebi's friend and convicted
drug dealer Glenn Agliotti in the South Gauteng High Court on
Tuesday. - Mail & Guardian
website
An
ace up his sleeve? - 9 October
The National Prosecuting Authority's recruitment of fugitive
Billy Rautenbach to testify against Jackie Selebi may be its
intended ace-in-the-hole - but Rautenbach is a card the former
police chief can play, too. Rautenbach clinched a plea bargain
with the NPA last month, allowing him to return a decade after a
warrant was issued for his arrest on multimillion-rand fraud and
theft charges. Last week it became apparent the deal, which
absolved him personally, included a silent codicil : testimony
against Selebi. - Mail &
Guardian website
State
error gags Agliotti on secret report - 7 October
As a police informant nicknamed "Piccone", Agliotti
coined R110 000 for his recruitment and for snitching on an R80
million mandrax deal orchestrated by a mysterious "Madame
Cheng". He was yesterday afternoon about to spill the beans
on what Selebi allegedly did in return for his cash and gifts
when an error in the State's indictment effectively gagged him.
Lawyers for the State and Selebi were due this morning to battle
over whether Agliotti can give evidence about how Selebi
allegedly showed him a top-secret UK intelligence report about
his suspected involvement in international drug smuggling. Nel
will have to persuade Johannesburg High Court Judge Meyer Joffe
to allow him to lead this evidence, which concerns events
outside the time period specified in the indictment against
Selebi. - IOL wbsite
Nel
apologises to court - 7 September
State prosecutor Gerrie Nel has apologised to the Johannesburg
High Court for typing errors made in the charge sheet against
Jackie Selebi. "I am embarrassed . . . it is a typing error
in the charge sheet and it was repeated . . . I read it a
hundred times, I missed it". However, Nel asked the court
not to let technical errors stand in the way of justice being
served and the facts of the trial coming to light. He then made
an application to "remedy" the charge sheet. - IOL
website
Court
grants application by State to amend Selebi typo - 7 October
Judge Meyer Joffe granted an application by the State in the
graft case of ex-top cop Jackie Selebi in the High Court in
Johannesburg on Wednesday to fix a crucial typing error.
"I'm going to grant the amendment," the judge said. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Agliotti
introduced Kebble's security chief Nassif to Selebi - 7
October
Convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti recalled in court on
Wednesday how he arranged meetings with ex-top cop Jackie Selebi
and Clinton Nassif, who was the head of slain mining magnate
Brett Kebble's security. Several meetings were held at Melrose
Arch and Gallagher Estate office park, Agliotti told the High
Court in Johannesburg. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Selebi
trial : the plot thickens - 7 October
The third Top Secret report has surfaced at the Jackie Selebi
trial, with Glenn Agliotti claiming the former police chief
handed him an email that had been sent from Paul O'Sullivan to
the Scorpions. - IOL website
Agliotti
: Selebi gave me secret email - 7 October
Former police boss Jackie Selebi allegedly handed his friend
Glenn Agliotti a copy of an email sent to the Scorpions by
Selebi's nemesis Paul O'Sullivan in 2006. "I was playing
golf when the accused [Selebi] phoned me. We met in the parking
lot at the Makro in Woodmead [Johannesburg] where I parked next
to his car. I got into the back of his car and he gave me the
document", Agliotti testified in the South Gauteng High
Court on Wednesday afternoon during Selebi's corruption trial.
It wasn't clear how Selebi had obtained the email message. - Mail
& Guardian website
Agliotti
tells of how he asked Selebi for help more than once - 7
October
Glenn Agliotti, the state's star witness against Jackie Selebi,
has testified about several instances when he called his then
friend Selebi for help. He has detailed how he asked Selebi
to help model Gina Athen's husband deal with an alleged
blackmail attempt by reality TV personality 'Bad' Brad Wood. He
also claims that he also introduced Selebi to businessman Gavin
Varejes and security expert Clinton Nassif, upon their request.
- Eye Witness News
website
Selebi's
lawyers to have a go at Agliotti - 8 October
Former police commissioner Jackie Selebi's lawyers are expected
to rely heavily on video footage of interviews with Glenn
Agliotti when they begin cross-examining the state's star
witness on Thursday. Agliotti is expected to finalise his
evidence in chief. - Eye
Witness News website
Agliotti
breaks down - 8 October
Convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti briefly broke down in
tears in the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday, saying he
did not want to testify against his former friend Jackie Selebi.
"My Lord, it's not easy being here. I didn't want to be
here to testify against my then friend and the accused,"
said Agliotti of his testimony in the former police chief's
corruption trial. "Do you want a few moments to compose
yourself?" asked Judge Meyer Joffe. - IOL
website
Agliotti
on why he paid Selebi R1-million - 8 October
Glenn Agliotti has finally spelt out why he allegedly paid
Selebi around R1-million in cash and luxury gifts. "We were
friends . . . I needed him in my business dealings . . . I needed
him close to me . . . I needed him for purposes of the Kebbles.
That's why I paid him". These words marked the end of his
evidence in chief, which was in its third day today. After a
short break, the cross examination is due to begin. - IOL
website
High
Court adjourns briefly for Agliotti to consult on Kebble murder
questions - 8 September
The High Court in Johannesburg adjourned briefly on Thursday to
allow witness Glenn Agliotti to get legal representation during
questioning about the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble.
Agliotti, who was being cross-examined in the graft case of
former top cop Jackie Selebi, is also an accused in the 2005
murder of Kebble. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Agliotti
gets lawyer to ponder Kebble questions - 8 October
Agliotti, who was being cross-examined in the graft case of
former top cop Jackie Selebi, is also an accused in the 2005
murder of Kebble. Selebi's lawyer, Jaap Cilliers, started
questioning Agliotti about the murder accusations, at which
point Agliotti asked Judge Meyer Joffe if he was allowed to
answer, considering he was an accused in the matter. - Times
Live website
Kebble
: Selebi lawyer supports Agliotti - 8 October
Glenn Agliotti has received support in his defence for the
murder of Brett Kebble from an unlikely source : Jackie Selebi's
lawyer. Selebi's counsel Jaap Cilliers SC has slammed Agliotti's
prosecution for Kebble's alleged suicide-by-hitman as
"beyond understanding . . . unless there is some other
motive we don't know about". - IOL
website
Selebi,
Agliotti "kind-hearted" men involved in charity work
- 8 October
Ex-top cop Jackie Selebi and his former friend Glenn Agliotti
were "kind-hearted" men involved in charity work while
their prosecutors were hatching "absurd" plots against
them, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on Thursday. This
emerged in the cross-examination of Agliotti, testifying in Selebi's
graft and defeating the ends of justice case. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Agliotti
says he lied - 8 October
Drug kingpin Glenn Agliotti says he made a statement denying
payments to former commissioner Jackie Selebi because he
believed it was what the National Intelligence Agency wanted to
hear. Agliotti has been trying to explain contradictory
statements he made to the Scorpions and the National
Intelligence Agency. - Eye
Witness News website
Kebble
shooting a ploy to get Agliotti to testify : Selebi defence
- 8 October
Glenn Agliotti says he agrees that prosecutors are keeping a
sword over his head by delaying the Brett Kebble murder trial so
that he can testify against Jackie Selebi. - Eye
Witness News website
Agliotti
backs up Selebi's claims against Pikoli and Ngcuka - 9
October
Agliotti has effectively backed up Selebi's claim that Ngcuka
and Pikoli are themselves implicated in corruption. - Eye
Witness News website
Selebi/Kebble
relationship wasn't corrupt : Agliotti - 9 October
Drug kingpin Glen Agliotti has conceded, to his knowledge, the
Kebble family never had a corrupt relationship with former
police commissioner Jackie Selebi. - Eye
Witness News website
Agliotti
says he misled Selebi about crime links - 10 October
State witness Glenn Agliotti says he used his relationship with
former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi for his own
gain. Agliotti conceded that in almost all the cases he asked
Selebi to assist him with he did so without the ex-police
chief’s knowledge. He says he never gave Selebi the impression
that he was involved in criminal activity and can understand why
his friend was shocked when details about him were revealed in
the media. - Eye
Witness News website
Selebi
trial : Judge, defence in terse exchange - 9 October
There was tension between the judge and the defence lawyer in
former top cop Jackie Selebi's corruption trial in the High
Court in Johannesburg today. "For this evidence to have any
value you must be far more careful in what you are doing",
Judge Meyer Joffe told defence counsel Jaap Cilliers when he
asked witness Glenn Agliotti questions about what
"returns" he gained from his association with Selebi.
- Times Live website
Selebi
trial : inside gangstas' paradise - 9 October
If only a quarter of what Glenn Agliotti told the South Gauteng
High Court this week is true, we live in a gangsters’
paradise. Agliotti’s evidence would easily give any Sopranos episode
a run for its money. The alleged plot is classic and dirty. The
Mafia boss corrupts the top cop. The Mafia boss fuels the top
cop’s extravagant lifestyle and showers him with clothing and
cash. - Mail & Guardian
website
Agliotti
explains why he gave gifts to Jackie Selebi - 10 October
State witness Glenn Agliotti has claimed that giving gifts
to friends without an improper motive does not constitute
bribery. The self-confessed drug trafficker made the statement
during his fourth day on the witness stand in Jackie Selebi's
corruption and defeating the ends of justice trial. - Eye
Witness News website
Agliotti
claims could boost Selebi's case - 10 October
The state's main witness in the case against Jackie Selebi
has undermined some of the prosecution's key allegations against
the former police commissioner. - Eye
Witness News website
Agliotti
unravels - 10 October
Convicted druglord admits testimony against Selebi is a bid to
save his own skin. In week one of the mammoth criminal trial of
former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi, his friend
and the state's star witness, Glenn Agliotti, found himself
between a rock and a hard place. In exchange for spilling the
beans on gifts and cash payments he made to the 59-year-old
Selebi, Agliotti stands to get indemnity for a host of crimes,
including fraud, corruption and theft. - Times
Live website
Selebi
trial to resume on Tuesday - 10 October
Jackie Selebi’s corruption trial will resume on Tuesday after
his lawyers spend money gaining access to evidence. The
former police commissioner’s lawyers want access to
material from an investigation, nicknamed Empire K, in which the
Scorpions probed the business dealings of slain mining magnate
Brett Kebble. This investigation focused on fraud
apparently carried out in the two companies, JCI and Randgold
& Exploration, controlled by Kebble. - Eye
Witness News website
Phumzile
denies Agliotti gifts - 11 October
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has denied ever having received a gift
from Glenn Agliotti or travelling with him on an international
flight from Frankfurt to Johannesburg. Speaking through her
spokeswoman, Unati Ngcuka, on Friday, the former deputy
president said she would not know the 52-year-old convicted drug
smuggler turned state witness in the Jackie Selebi trial
"from a bar of soap" and that she "did not
receive a pen from him". "Nor did she ever meet him,
travel with him or speak to him," her spokeswoman said. -
IOL website
Selebi
lawyers to look into 'crucial' NPA documents - 12 October
Jackie Selebi's lawyers will meet prosecutors in Pretoria on Monday to view documents they believe are crucial to
the defence of the former police commissioner. Selebi's
trial was postponed on Friday because his advocate could
not continue without the paperwork. - Eye
Witness News website
Bad
Brad, Selebi , murder plots and a sex tape - 12 October
Eyewitness News has learnt that controversial
personality "Bad" Brad Wood is laying charges against
Jackie Selebi, for allegedly taking money to have him dismissed
from the police force. Wood’s name emerged in the corruption
and defeating the ends of justice trial of the former police
chief last week. Wood's attorney Ian Levitt says his client
believes Selebi had him dismissed as an SAPS reservist. - Eye
Witness News website
Agliotti
admits lying to the Kebbles - 13 October
Drug-lord Glenn Agliotti admitted on Tuesday morning that he
lied to the Kebble family about an improper relationship between
former police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi and security
boss Clinton Nassif. Still under cross-examination by Agliotti's
defence counsel Jaap Cilliers, Agliotti admitted that he falsely
boasted to the Kebbles and their mining company JCI that Nassif
was part of the "Selebi team" to convince them to
appoint Nassif as their head of security. Nassif, who is also
set to testify against Selebi in the marathon trial, replaced
former police informer Paul Stemmet as the Kebbles' head of
security after being recommended by Agliotti. On Tuesday
Agliotti agreed with Cilliers that he had brought Kebble and his
former business partner John Stratton "under the impression
that services were rendered by Nassif under the auspices of the
commissioner". - Mail &
Guardian website
Selebi
was 'knocked', says defence - 13 October
Convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti took money intended to
bribe former top cop Jackie Selebi and kept it for himself, the
defence alleged in the High Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
During cross-examination, defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers put
forward that Selebi was a victim of a process called
"knocking" when Agliotti took a "consulting
fee" of around R12 million to R13 million for giving
murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble and his associates access
to Selebi. - IOL website
Agliotti
admits to using Selebi's name, but only to scam the Kebbles
- 13 October
State witness Glenn Agliotti has admitted he repeatedly lied by
using former police commissioner Jackie Selebi’s name to
secure money. - Eye
Witness News website
'Mandela's
confidante framed innocent man' - 13 October
Glenn Agliotti has fingered Nelson Mandela's confidant Yusuf
Surtee in the framing of an innocent man on drug charges.
Agliotti has told the Johannesburg High Court that he introduced
Surtee to former Brett Kebble security chief Paul Stemmet to
help him resolve "difficulties" he had with an as-yet
unidentified man in Cape Town. - IOL
website
Nassif
lied about bribes : Agliotti - 13 October
Convicted drug dealer Glenn Agliotti has reinforced his
testimony that he did not receive improper assistance from
former police chief Jackie Selebi. Still under cross examination
from Selebi's advocate, Jaap Cilliers, Agliotti testified today
that statements made by Brett Kebble security consultant Clinton
Nassif were untrue. Nassif is himself a convicted criminal, and
may be perceived to be as unreliable a witness as Agliotti. - Moneyweb
website
Lawyer
eyes 'crooked' Agliotti and friends - 13 October
A story of lies and alleged crimes involving convicted drug
trafficker Glenn Agliotti and his associates emerged during the
corruption trial of former top cop Jackie Selebi on Tuesday. In
the Johannesburg High Court, defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers
focused on alleged underhanded transactions between Agliotti,
mining magnate Brett Kebble, and his associate John Stratton, as
well as security operators Paul Stemmet and Clinton Nassif. - IOL
website
Agliotti
lists his lies - 14 October
Glenn Agliotti, the state's star witness against Jackie Selebi,
has admitted he lied to get the best possible deal for himself
and to make some cash. But Agliotti claims he is not "the
only liar", and has accused the police and other key state
witnesses in the former national police commissioner's
corruption trial of lying under oath. - IOL
website
Glenn
Agliotti lambasted for lying - 14 October
Convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti spent Wednesday morning
bearing the brunt of questions from defence counsel Jaap
Cilliers, who again lambasted him for lying to the court.
"You look the honourable court in the eye and you still
lie", Cilliers said. When questioned, Agliotti said,
"It's not my verbiage". - Mail
& Guardian website
Video
fight in Selebi case - 14 October
To play or not to play, this is the question that stopped
proceedings in the Jackie Selebi trial this morning. At stake is
the notorious video recording made by the police of Glenn
Agliotti in January 2008 and shows him turning against the
Scorpions and exonerating the former top cop of corruption.
Selebi's defence team are fighting for it to be shown in open
court, claiming forbidding it would jeopardise Selebi's
constitutional right to a fair trial. They are adamant the video
is crucial and that it "may well lead to the end of the
state's case". State prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, has objected
to the video being disclosed, saying it was obtained illegally
as Agliotti insisted it was strictly "off the record".
- IOL website
Agliotti's
memory sometimes fails him - 14 October
A faulty memory could explain inconsistencies in his statement,
convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti told the High Court in
Johannesburg on Wednesday. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Adv
Cilliers tore into Agliotti's claims - 14 October
The lavish R30 000 Interpol dinner that Glenn Agliotti claims he
sponsored for Jackie Selebi never happened. So contends selebi's
advocate Jaap Cilliers SC, who this afternoon tore into
Agliotti's claims that he had offered to pay for the 2005
dinner, which he said Selebi planned to use to lobby for his
election as the head of Interpol. - IOL
website
Selebi
would have been "astonished" by improper payments from
Agliotti - 14 October
Former police chief Jackie Selebi would have been
"astonished" to be offered improper payments by drug
lord Glenn Agliotti, the High Court in Johannesburg heard on
Wednesday. The claim, by defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers, came as
his cross examination of Agliotti continued in Selebi's
corruption trial. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Agliotti
video admitted - 15 October
A 2008 video recording between convicted drug trafficker Glenn
Agliotti and police and NIA representatives has provisionally
been admitted as evidence in the corruption trial of former top
cop Jackie Selebi. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Agliotti
: Scorpions f*cked up my life - 15 October
Graft-accused Jackie Selebi's former friend Glenn Agliotti was
viewed speaking about how his life was ruined in a video
recording screened in the High Court in Johannesburg on
Thursday. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Kebble
murderers are free now : Agliotti - 15 October
Glenn Agliotti, the only accused in mining magnate Brett
Kebble's murder case, maintains he is innocent while the real
killers walk free. "I had no role to play in it,"
Agliotti says in a video recording played in the Johannesburg
High Court on Thursday during the corruption trial of former top
cop Jackie Selebi. Instead, he alleges the Directorate of
Special Operations - also known as the Scorpions - had no
interest in convicting those responsible for the murder. - IOL
website
Scorpions
'obsessed' with bringing down Selebi - 15 October
The Scorpions "compared my case to John Gotti's" and
were "obsessed" with bringing down former police
National Commisioner Jackie Selebi. That was some of the damning
remarks by drug-lord Glenn Agliotti during the first half-hour
of a video interview being screened in the South Gauteng High
Court on Thursday afternoon. - Mail
& Guardian website
Scorpions
just wanted me and Selebi : Agliotti video - 15 October
In a video shown in court on Wednesday, convicted drug
trafficker Glenn Agliotti claims that the state's case against
him and former police commissioner Jackie Selebi was purely
political. He alleged that the Scorpions were desperate to
topple Selebi because they believed it would help them stay a
separate entity to the police. Despite identifying this motive,
Agliotti went on to allege that the Scorpions and the
prosecuting authorities had allowed themselves to be used by
former airports security boss Paul O' Sullivan to assist his own
personal dispute with Selebi. - Moneyweb
website
M&G
denies attending Scorpions 'indaba' - 15 October
The Mail & Guardian's editor-in-chief, Nic Dawes, denied on
Thursday that a journalist of the paper attended an
"indaba" with the Scorpions to discuss campaigning
against former police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. - Mail
& Guardian website
Statement
at http://www.mg.co.za/uploads/2009/10/15/selebipress.pdf
'Kebble
practised his suicide' - 15 October
Slain mining magnate Brett Kebble had dry runs to practise his
assisted suicide, convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti
alleges in a video recording before court on Thursday. "It
was an assisted suicide . . . Now we know Brett got into such
financial trouble, he could not see the way out… He then . . .
planned it with [security operative Clinton] Nassif and they
planned it, they prayed about it, they had dry runs," says
Agliotti. - News24 website
'This
Nassif is a piece of s**t. He's lying' - 15 October
Agliotti said the Scorpions eventually arrested Nassif on
insurance fraud charges and put him in "Sun City"
prison. "They locked him up and he said he will give
everything on the Kebble murder and everything else he knows. He
wanted 204 [indemnity] on tax, fraud, murder, drugs, the whole
thing. He then told the Scorpions who had murdered Brett and
why". - IOL website
My
R1m funded murder, says businessman - 16 October
A prominent Joburg businessman has admitted that his cash funded
the R1 million killing of Brett Kebble - but maintains that it
was by accident. "I didn't know what I was paying
for," James Murray, a former business partner of
self-admitted Kebble shooting mastermind Clint Nassif, told The
Star yesterday. Murray claims he was tricked into paying
Kebble's hitmen when he attempted to pay back money he owed to
Nassif after a failed property deal. - IOL
website
Judge
Meyer Joffe : "At best this trial is confusing" -
16 October
Friday is the last day of week two in the corruption trial of
former top cop Jackie Selebi, and the first witness - convicted
drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti - still remains on the stand. On
Friday, defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers' cross-examination of
Agliotti in the High Court in Johannesburg was about minute
details of dates on which various payments were made to
different people. - The
Richmark Sentinel website
Selebi
reveals alibi - 16 October
Advocate Jaap Cilliers claimed in court on Friday that his
client, former police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, could not have
received a cash payment of R200 000 from Glenn Agliotti. Still
under cross examination by Cilliers, it became clear that
Agliotti was not sure if he paid R200 000 in cash to Selebi on
December 13 2004, as he has previously testified. - Moneyweb
website
Agliotti
stands by his story - 16 October
Jackie Selebi's advocate has accused drug-lord Glenn Agliotti -
again - of lying. Senior counsel Jaap Cilliers put it to
Agliotti on Friday morning that he lied about dates on which
Selebi allegedly collected cash parcels from his Midrand office.
A tired-looking Agliotti told Judge Meyer Joffe in the South
Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg he might have been wrong
about the dates, but that he "definitely" stands by
his story that he gave Selebi money. - Mail
& Guardian website
Mbeki's
shoes in the spotlight - 16 October
Jackie Selebi has denied that his one-time friend Glenn Agliotti
paid for a pair of size 7 designer shoes for then President
Thabo Mbeki. Instead the former top cop maintains that it was
him who paid for his high-powered political ally's "small
and broad" footwear. - IOL
website
Agliotti
gets a long weekend - 16 October
The corruption case of former top cop Jackie Selebi has been
postponed until Tuesday in the High Court in Johannesburg. Judge
Meyer Joffe ruled on Friday that because of a death in the
family of prosecutor Gerrie Nel, court would resume for its
tenth day on Tuesday. Defence lawyer Jaap Cilliers also asked
for some time to go through notes before concluding his
cross-examination of State witness Glenn Agliotti. - IOL
website
Selebi
knew nothing, claims Agliotti - 20 October
State witness Glenn Agliotti says he used former police head
Jackie Selebi's name - without him knowing it - to get money,
according to a recording viewed in the Johannesburg High Court
on Tuesday. - IOL website
Third
tape questioned in Selebi trial - 20 October
The South Gauteng High Court is hearing heated argument about a City
Pressnewspaper article which claims the existence of a third
secret video tape of Glen Agliotti. Jackie Selebi’s
defense wants to question Agliotti about the report but neither
the defense nor prosecution have copies of the tape. The
reporter claims to have seen another video filmed in January
last year featuring Agliotti and policeman Mulangi
Mphego. - Eye
Witness News website
Judge
outraged in Selebi trial - 20 October
The existence of yet another covert video recording of Glenn
Agliotti has outraged the judge in the Jackie Selebi corruption
trial and threatens to delay proceedings. The revelations, made
in the City Press newspaper and presented to court this morning,
are crucial to Selebi's defence as they show that Agliotti may
have lied under oath as to how the notorious January 2008
meetings came about. - IOL
website
A
'third force' at work in Selebi trial? - 20 October
Is there a "third force" at work in the trial of
former top cop Jackie Selebi? That was the suggestion by Judge
Meyer Joffe in the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday morning
when he grilled Selebi's lawyer Jaap Cilliers about his
quotation of a City Press article. Cilliers handed to
Joffe, witness Glenn Agliotti and the state copies of a
front-page article in Sunday's City Press, which details an
alleged second video of Agliotti's interviews with South
Africa's intelligence bosses. - Mail
& Guardian website
Judge
suspects influence in Selebi case - 20 October
Judge Meyer Joffe says it appears that somebody has showna video
to a City Press reporter with the
intention of influencing proceedings in the trial of former
police Commissioner Jackie Selebi. Selebi's advocate Jaap
Cilliers on Tuesday drew the court's attention to an
article which appeared in the City Press this
weekend. The article claims that City Press reporters
have seen a "top-secret" video recording which
"reveals how Glenn Agliotti, the state's star witness in
the corruption trial of former national police Commissioner
Jackie Selebi, has been lying under oath". - Moneyweb
website
Selebi
claims Agliotti presented one gift - 20 October
Former police commissioner Jackie Selebi says Glen Agliotti did
buy him a gift on one occasion - a Swiss army knife but the
state’s star witness refuted this. - Eye
Witness News website
State
to grill Agliotti's ex - 20 October
Glenn Agliotti's ex-girlfriend is expected to be the next
witness to take the stand against former top cop Jackie Selebi.
And, after Selebi's defence team attacked both Agliotti's
credibility and the factual accuracy of his testimony, Diane
Muller will be under pressure to bolster the State's seemingly
weakened corruption case against Selebi. - IOL
website
Selebi
asks judge to recuse himself - 21 October
Former police chief Jackie Selebi on Wednesday requested to
apply for the recusal of Judge Meyer Joffe from his corruption
trial in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg. Defence
lawyer Jaap Cilliers told the judge he had the "unpleasant
task" of applying for the judge to be removed. Affidavits
will be filed on October 28. The court will hear heads of
argument on October 29. Court has been stood down until then. - News24
website
Speculation
over latest Selebi appeal - 21 October
Prosecutors will not say if they believe Jackie Selebi's
latest legal move is a delaying tactic while the defense
refuses to reveal why it wants the judge in the trial to
withdraw. - Eye
Witness News website
What
was last straw for Selebi's advocate? - 22 October
Jackie Selebi "all along" harboured suspicions that
the judge trying him for corruption was biased against him. But
it was a heated tiff between Judge Meyer Joffe and Selebi's
defence advocate over the alleged leaking of a third secret
video of State witness Glenn Agliotti that persuaded the former
police chief that the judge had to go. - IOL
website
Prosecutors
back judge in Selebi trial - 21 October
Prosecutors in former police commissioner Jackie Selebi's
corruption trial say they believe the judge has conducted
himself properly so far. - Eye
Witness News website
Selebi
lawyers prepare arguments for recusal of judge - 22 October
Former police commissioner Jackie Selebi's legal team will now
be preparing their argument for the recusal of the judge in his
trial. - Eye Witness
News website
Selebi
trial could start from scrach if judge withdraws - 22
October
The move is a calculated gamble. If Judge Meyer Joffe refuses to
recuse himself it could make advocate Jaap Cilliers' ride even
bumpier than it has already been. In the unlikely scenario that
Joffe agrees to withdraw, the entire trial could start from
scratch. - Eye
Witness News website