Alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack appeared in court for a second successive day on Tuesday, alongside an Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) officer, to face charges of corruption.
The State alleges that Modack paid his co-accused, Sergeant Ashley Tabisher, R10,000 for information about AGU investigations against him.
The case, held in the Bishop Lavis Magistrates’ Court, was postponed until Monday to set a date for a bail application. Western Cape National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila indicated that the State would oppose bail.
Modack also faces charges of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, being part of a criminal gang, and conspiring to acquire and possessing an explosive device, related to five murder attempts on AGU regional commander Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear, who was shot dead outside his Bishop Lavis home on 18 September 2020.
Nafiz Modack in the dock for corruption alongside Anti-Gang Unit member
4 May 2021 1:29 PM
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Alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack was back in court on Tuesday - this time on corruption charges for allegedly bribing an officer for police intel.
Nafiz Modack and Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) member Ashley Tabischer appeared in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate s Court on corruption charges.
It s alleged that Modack bribed the 39-year-old officer in exchange for police information, reports Eyewitness News journalist Kevin Brandt.
Modack is also facing a range of other charges relating to alleged gang activity and conspiracy to commit murder.
This is in connection with an alleged plot involving a hand grenade outside the home AGU detective Charl Kinnear in 2019.
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A 39-year-old member attached to the Tactical Response Team was arrested during the weekend on suspicion of the proliferation of information to unsavory characters operating in the Western Cape underworld.
It is reported that the suspect was arrested during an intelligence-driven operation conducted by the National Task Team investigating gang-related activities, National Intervention Unit, and Tactical Response Team. It’s alleged that the suspect has between 2019 and 2020, enticed by an underworld figure to infiltrate the Anti-Gang Unit and supply them with information relating to operations of the underworld figure in return for gratification.
The suspect will be charged with corruption together with three accomplices. The four will be appearing in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s Court tomorrow, 04 May 2021.
Bishop Lavis Magistrate s Court (Jenni Evans, News24)
A member of the police s elite Tactical Response Team was arrested for allegedly giving unsavoury underworld figures information.
The 39-year-old officer was allegedly enticed to pass Anti-Gang Unit operational information on for gratification .
The arrest comes amid the ripples caused by the attempted murder of lawyer William Booth and the assassination of AGU detective Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear.
The police arrested a Tactical Response Team (TRT) member at the weekend for allegedly passing on operational information to unsavoury underworld figures for gratification.
Police spokesperson Colonel Katlego Mogale said the 39-year-old officer will appear with three other people on charges of corruption in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate s Court in Cape Town on Tuesday.