S.Africa: Hard Evidence - Proof that the Police Murder criminals to protect Organised crime

[The Star newspaper ran a huge headline this morning. I bought the newspaper and here is the full story.

You will recall that in June 2007 I started talking about the concept that the Police - yes, Jackie Selebi's corrupt Police force, murders criminals in order to prevent them from testifying and thereby damaging massive Organised crime organisations.

Here were some of my original stories:-
SA: Do Police murder some criminals to protect Organised Crime?
SA: Do the Police murder certain criminals? Part II
SA: The Police murder another man in custody...

The following story I put out below is an example of how deeply involved our corrupt Chief of National Police is with organised crime. Note: President Mbeki and President-to-be, Jacob Zuma have both protected this piece of scum called Jackie Selebi: The World's Super-Corrupt Top Cop - Jackie Selebi, head of Interpol

Take a look at this story below. This is the proof. Look at how everything is tied together. Jan]

Airport heist shock

Witnesses are either dead or missing

By Karyn Maughan

The murders of four witnesses and disappearance of a fifth has destroyed the state's case against police officials accused of stealing more than R100-million recovered from Gauteng's most outrageous airport heist.

And police say they have little hope of ever tracking the last surviving witness - they claim he walked out of a witness protection safe house and "disappeared into thin air".

"We don't speculate on whether he is still alive," police spokesperson Eugene Opperman told The Star yesterday. "We have no control over people in witness protection. We can't stop them from leaving".

The man whom Opperman declined to identify or confirm as a former suspect in the case is understood to have left all his personal belongings behind.

Now police either will have to convince the Johannesburg High Court that the theft of the money from the Benoni police station safe was not their fault or face paying it back to G4S International, which was responsible for transporting the cash.

The money was initially stolen during a daring heist at OR Tambo International Airport in March 2006.

Less than two months after the money was recovered, police reported it stolen after robbers drilled through the police station's safe.

Despite the fact that Inspector Serious Mthembu (38) and Sergeant Paul Kgoedi (41) and civilians Richard Sibiya (38) and Samson Baloyi (28) were all allegedly found with small amounts of the stolen cash, the National Prosecuting Authority had to withdraw its case because of lack of evidence.

The decision came after four potential witnesses against the men were murdered.

Opperman yesterday said "nothing of any value or relevance" had been uncovered during the investigations into the deaths of the four:

· Inspector Khomani Mashele (40), who apparently turned state witness after police found R151 030 at his sister's house in Tembisa and arrested him, was gunned down in front of his family in Kempton Park in 2006. He and Mthembu had keys to two security gates; neither had keys for the safe.

· Suspected of having information about the Benoni theft, Solomon Nengwane (53) was reportedly taken into custody on June 5 2006. Two days later, his family learnt that he had died of suffocation.

· Police informant and alleged witness Frank Mampane was shot in the back by the investigators near the Phumolong toll plaza in North West. He was reportedly handcuffed at the time.

· Tshepo Mathe, a former accused in the case, was gunned down by a sniper in Mamelodi, near Pretoria.

The prosecutor responsible for handling the case, Pretoria advocate Pieter-Alan Smith, could not be reached yesterday.

Published on the web by Star on February 18, 2008.

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Posted By: Jan
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Author of: Government by Deception

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(George Orwell)

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