State
and defence bicker in Selebi trial - 2 November
Bickering between the defence and State in the corruption case
of former police head Jackie Selebi punctuated proceedings in
the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday. Defence lawyer Jaap
Cilliers and prosecutor Gerrie Nel got into a dispute over
whether certain annexures from an affidavit by State witness
Glenn Agliotti had been handed over. - IOL
website
"I
hate being called a liar" : Gerrie Nel - 2 November
Bickering between the defence and State in the corruption case
of former police head Jackie Selebi punctuated proceedings in
the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday. Defence lawyer Jaap
Cilliers and prosecutor Gerrie Nel got into a dispute over
whether certain annexures from an affidavit by State witness
Glenn Agliotti had been handed over. As the re-examination of
Agliotti got underway, Cilliers said the State was referring to
annexures it had not received. Nel said he was upset at being
called a "liar" and was adamant all evidence the
defence had requested had been handed over. - Moneyweb
website
Agliotti's
payment claims challenged - 2 November
Jackie Selebi's advocate is challenging payments the state's key
witness claims he made to the former police commissioner. Selebi
denies receiving money from Glenn Agliotti. The prosecution
alleges the former police chief pocketed around R1.2-million in
bribes from Agliotti. - Eye
Witness News website
Selebi
quizzed Agloitti about his nickname - 2 November
Glenn Agliotti has revealed that former police chief Jackie
Selebi quizzed him about reports that he was a major
international drug lord called "The Landlord". But,
Agliotti told the Johannesburg High Court this afternoon, it
appeared to him that his self-described "friend"
Selebi had misinterpreted the nickname, prompting him to ask
whether he (Agliotti) was renting properties out to accused
drug dealer Stefanos Paparas. - IOL
website
Prosecution
tries to regain ground in Selebi trial - 2 November
The prosecution in the Jackie Selebi corruption trial has begun
its attempt to regain ground after the defence finished its
cross-examination of Glenn Agliotti on Monday. Earlier, the
former police chief's lawyers brought an application to formally
place on record grievances it has with the state. - Eye
Witness News website
Another
'side show' looming in Selebi trial? - 3 November
The South Gauteng High Court was expected to hear an application
from Jackie Selebi's lawyers to formally complain about the
prosecution in the case. In what appeared to be another legal
ploy, Selebi's advocate tried to bring the application for a
special entry on Monday, but the matter had yet to be heard. - Eye
Witness News website
Media
caught between sides in Selebi trial - 3 November
The prosecution and the defence in Jackie Selebi's corruption
trial have accused one another of trying to play up the matter
for the media. - Eye
Witness News website
Agliotti
reveals he identified Kebble's body - 3 November
Glenn Agliotti has revealed he was the person who had to
identify mining magnate Brett Kebble’s body the day after he
was gunned down in Melrose
in September 2005. Agliotti is due to stand trial for the
murder in February next year. - Eye
Witness News website
Agliotti
will plead not guilty - 3 November
Glenn Agliotti has revealed that he will plead not guilty to the
murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble. After earlier this
morning telling the Johannesburg High court that he had been
responsible for identifying the body of the man whose killing he
is accused of orchestrating, Agliotti said "as far as I
know" he would be the only man in the dock. - IOL
website
Scorpions
must go, Selebi told Agliotti - 3 November
Former police head Jackie Selebi told his once-friend Glenn
Agliotti that the Scorpions should go, the court heard on
Tuesday. - IOL website
Advocates
told to cool their heels in Selebi trial - 3 November
The judge in the Jackie Selebi trial has appealed to both legal
teams to avoid acrimony, fighting and personal issues because
the trial is hard enough already. - Eye
Witness News website
Identifying
Kebble's body 'traumatised me' - 4 November
Glenn Agliotti said yesterday he was "very, very
traumatised" by the experience of identifying Brett
Kebble's body. He was asked to identify the body because
Kebble's brother Guy and father Roger, with whom Agliotti had
had numerous tearful conversations in the hours after Kebble was
killed, were respectively in Cape Town and overseas at the time.
- IOL website
Selebi,
Agliotti had 'friendship of gain' : Muller - 4 November
Explosive evidence of payments made by convicted drug trafficker
Glenn Agliotti to corruption-accused former police head Jackie
Selebi emerged in court today. "It was a friendship of
gain. I think they used each other for what they could gain from
the friendship", said State witness Dianne Muller, the
ex-fiancee of Agliotti, in the High Court in Johannesburg. The
petite blonde gave evidence of payments and gifts made by
Agliotti to Selebi. She detailed an incident when she packed
R110 000 for Selebi at office premises she shared with Agliotti.
- Business Day
website
Agliotti
unable to tell truth, says ex-fiance - 4 November
Glenn Agliotti's ex-fiance has revealed that she kicked him out,
after an eight-year relationship, because of his "inability
to tell me the truth". Diane Muller however insists that
ahe and the state's star witness against Jackie Selebi had
"never ever been enemies". Muller - the only eye
witness to Agliotti's alleged corrupt cash payments to Selebi -
said her ex's relationship with the then police commissioner had
made him increasingly arrogant. - IOL
website
Agliotti's
former fiancée grilled over finances - 5 November
Glen Agliotti's former fiancée Dianne Muller was grilled by
Jackie Selebi's advocate about her financial relationship with
Agliotti on Thursday. - Eye
Witness News website
Dianne
Muller takes Selebi on - 5 November
State witness Dianne Muller took on former police head Jackie
Selebi in court on Thursday telling him his denials of payments
and gifts were an outright lie. That is not the truth,"
Muller said angrily, turning in the witness stand to stare
directly at Selebi in the dock as she spoke. - Moneyweb
website
Selebi
trial : Muller, the tough one - 5 November
Defence counsel Jaap Cilliers clawed back some ground during a
second day of cross-examination of Glenn Agliotti's former fiancée,
Dianne Muller. But he incurred the wrath of the forthright
blonde when he said Jackie Selebi denied ever taking money from
the ostensible drug lord. She then looked Selebi straight in the
eye, and called him a liar. - The
Daily Maverick website
Third
witness to take stand in Selebi trial - 6 November
The third witness is expected to take the stand as the third
week of former top cop Jackie Selebi's corruption case draws to
a close. Martin Flint, father of Dianne Muller as well as the
financial director of her events management company, would
testify on Friday in the High Court in Johannesburg. He
allegedly dealt with an account for the company Spring Lights,
from which payments from slain mining magnate Brett Kebble and
his associate John Stratton were distributed to convicted drug
trafficker and Kebble murder accused Glenn Agliotti. - Times
Live website
'I
wish this nightmare would end' : witness - 6 November
A third witness took to the stand as the third week of former
top cop Jackie Selebi's corruption case drew to a close on
Friday. "I wish this nightmare would end," said Martin
Flint as he took the stand in the High Court in Johannesburg. - IOL
website
Accountant's
testimony given in Selebi trial - 6 November
Cheque counterfoil stubs reading JS, chief and cash cop featured
prominently in the Jackie Selebi corruption trial on Friday.
Accountant Martin Flint took the stand to give evidence against
the former police chief. - Eye
Witness News website