Former Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli (above) is one of the people under investigation following the revelation that R4 million had allegedly been spent by Crime Intelligence to spy on the EFF.
He’s the guy who served during the Zuma administration between 2009 and 2012 and was regarded as a key Zuma ally in a strategically powerful position. He was also accused of murder.
The millions spent on a ‘spy campaign’ took place during the #FeesMustFall protests. The money was supposedly used to pay informants who supplied information on the EFF and #FeesMustFall activists, including their meetings, rallies, and strategies.
And that’s not even the worst of it.
IOL has more:
The EFF has threatened National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise with a court action if she fails to expedite the establishment of the standing committee on intelligence by Friday.
The police said on Sunday that a probe into those who looted millions of rand from the Crime Intelligence slush fund over the years is at an advanced stage.
This rush to get to the bottom of things has come about in response to an internal report from Crime Intelligence that showed how cops used the alleged ‘spy campaign’ as a front. The money was apparently used to pay for luxury cars and hotel stays.
According to the report, some of the purported informants in bogus crime intelligence projects, who would “assist” in the infiltration, did not even exist.
More than R5m was allegedly looted from the account.
This comes after senior Hawks detective Colonel Kobus Roelofse testified before the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on how senior officers had looted the slush fund, with the police top brass refusing to declassify the documents which were needed to conduct a probe.
He also described disgraced former Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli as being a law unto himself while at the helm of the division, with the slush fund plundered for his personal and his family expenses.
These included a R90 000 settlement for his car instalment; payments of private flights for Mdluli, his family and other crime intelligence officials amounting to more than R1.6m between 2010 and 2011.
In the tradition of Zuma-era looting, Mdluli used some of the looted cash for security upgrades of R190 000 to his Boksburg home and for the purchase of luxury cars between 2009 and 2011 to the total of R3,15 million.
Remember the fire pool? If you need a refresher, here’s Zuma having a great time, swimming in it.
It’s nice to know where taxpayer’s money was going all those years.
[source:iol]
