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    Default Confidential info leak in stolen cop guns case involving 3 028 dockets

    EXCLUSIVE: Confidential info leak in stolen cop guns case involving 3 028 dockets
    Caryn Dolley, News24 | News24
    15:02 26/05/2017

    Cape Town - A highly sensitive investigation diary and records that may expose details of an informant have apparently been leaked in a mammoth firearms smuggling case, involving 3 028 police dockets linked to stolen guns.

    It is understood that the strictly confidential documents were allegedly leaked to the defence team in the matter.

    The head of the Western Cape’s Crime Intelligence division, Mzwandile Tiyo, was to have been served with a court order relating to the case to, among other things, see to it that the confidential documents were handed to the State.

    Rondebosch businessman Irshaad "Hunter" Laher and Vereeniging arms dealer Alan Raves are the accused in the matter.


    'Guns to gangsters'

    They are involved in a case linked to the alleged selling of firearms, meant to have been destroyed by police, to gangsters around the Western Cape.

    An ex-police colonel, now serving a jail sentence for his role in the saga, previously said he had sold at least 2 000 firearms to Laher who allegedly paid him to steal guns meant for destruction.

    According to an order handed down in the Western Cape High Court about a week ago, and stamped May 19, Laher’s legal representative is instructed to give the State "all the particulars the State dispute were voluntarily disclosed to the defence".

    These included the investigation diary of police dockets and "all records, files and documents in their possession that relate to the disclosure of the particulars of an informant/source".

    These documents need to be handed to the State by June 9.

    Information leaks and a murder

    News24 understands that allegedly leaked information relating to the case was found in the offices of attorney Noorudien Hassan after he was killed. He was part of a legal team dealing with the Laher matter and was also linked to some of the province’s most high-profile gang cases.

    Hassan was murdered outside his Lansdowne home in November 2016.

    Earlier this week, in a seemingly unrelated interview, high-ranking Western Cape policeman Major-General Jeremy Vearey told News24 that he was a target of constant smear campaigns, being run by senior police officers and politicians with the help of gangsters.

    He had mentioned Hassan.

    Vearey had said he was aware of a particular crime intelligence officer who had previously visited Hassan about claims to be concocted against him.

    3 028 dockets

    In the court order handed down earlier this month, further light was shed on the magnitude of the firearms case.

    The divisional commissioner of detective services was instructed to ensure that 3 028 police dockets, linked through the Integrated Ballistic Identification System to the stolen firearms, be collated.

    This information had to be handed to the prosecution before July 31.

    The court ordered that the divisional crime intelligence commissioner ensure "all the interception directions", issued by the designated judge and relating to the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act, be handed to the prosecution before or on June 30.

    It also ordered that the investigating officer should serve of a copy of the order on the divisional commissioner of detective services and the divisional commissioner of crime intelligence.

    The case was postponed to September 22.

    2 400 stolen firearms

    Laher stands accused of buying guns from ex-policeman Chris Prinsloo of Vereeniging. In June 2016, Prinsloo was sentenced to 18 years behind bars after entering a plea and sentence agreement with the State.

    He pleaded guilty to 11 charges, including theft, racketeering, and money laundering.

    Prinsloo, a former police colonel, was in charge of the police armoury and stole 2 400 guns over almost a decade. Police were meant to destroy all discarded, redundant, and obsolete firearms.

    These weapons had to be kept locked in sealed steel boxes at the confiscated firearms store in Silverton, Gauteng, before being destroyed.

    Prinsloo apparently got to know Laher well when they were stationed at De Deur police station at one stage.

    According to an amended indictment, Laher offered Prinsloo R2m in exchange for stolen firearms and ammunition that were meant to be destroyed.

    89 children murdered

    Netwerk24 previously reported that 89 children had been shot dead on the Cape Flats between February 2010 and December 2015 with firearms stolen by Prinsloo. In that same period, another 170 children survived after being shot with the same firearms.

    The incidents were linked via ballistics to more than 800 firearms that Western Cape detectives had traced so far.

    Raves allegedly offered Prinsloo and another police officer R100 000 for firearms and ammunition. He was charged with stealing parts of firearms - between 300 and 400 rifles, and up to 20 000 rifle cartridges.

    The firearms matter was touched on in the Cape Town Labour Court case involving Vearey and Major General Peter Jacobs.

    Vearey and Jacobs are challenging police management, including Tiyo and acting national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane, for allegedly demoting them.

    In June 2016, Vearey, who was deputy provincial commissioner for detective services, was suddenly shifted to a position he had previously filled - commander of the Cape Town cluster of police stations. Jacobs, who headed the province's crime intelligence unit, was appointed Wynberg cluster commander.

    1 066 killings

    Jacobs, in an affidavit in the matter, has referred to the firearms case, saying 888 of the 2 000 firearms Prinsloo supplied, were forensically connected to 1 066 murders. This was for the period between 2010 and May 31, 2016.

    "The outstanding balance of firearms might be linked to both crimes before 2010 as well as those crimes post-May 2016."

    Jacobs said, when more than 250 firearms were found in Valhalla Park house in October 2016, he and Vearey, despite their expertise and probes into illegal firearms, were told to leave the scene.

    They said the instruction apparently came from Tiyo.

    ‪ http://m.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/exclusive-confidential-info-leak-in-stolen-cop-guns-case-involving-3-028-dockets-20170526‬

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    WTF even if 50% true then what about the rest of the country's provinces and police stations in itself?
    Army, correctional services, metro and normal speed enforcement officers and all state controlled bodies issued without competency and responsibility for it if any lost.
    Fact remains billions wasted on civilian arms control but handed out freely to people not suitable to breed.
    This not aimed at the 10,000's of truly honest and hardworking people in the services that tries to keep us all safe, they are the victims too. To those, respect.

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    Shocking! Why is this not being dealt with as a national priority by the SAPS? What is the current position with firearms being handed in the SAPS? Do they honestly expect law abiding citizens to trust them again?

    Where is our super keen, ever visible new Minister of Police????


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tayls View Post
    Shocking! Why is this not being dealt with as a national priority by the SAPS? What is the current position with firearms being handed in the SAPS? Do they honestly expect law abiding citizens to trust them again?

    Where is our super keen, ever visible new Minister of Police????


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    You are easily shocked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by G33 View Post
    You are easily shocked.

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    We should all be.

    If you don't express your outrage and do what you can to raise the heat, then you are part of the problem (and acting in the way "they" expect/want you to).


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tayls View Post
    We should all be.

    If you don't express your outrage and do what you can to raise the heat, then you are part of the problem (and acting in the way "they" expect/want you to).


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    Outrage and shock are not the same thing...

    I feel more vindicated then shocked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by G33 View Post
    Outrage and shock are not the same thing...

    I feel more vindicated then shocked.

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    But the real question is what are you doing about it?

    These and the all too numerous issues and problems which come to our attention on almost a daily basis? Or are you one of those who fall into the "... I knew this would happen" camp?

    Are you a couch critic or trying to make a difference, in your own way, within your own focus area?

    Perhaps this is worthwhile thinking about. Yes?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tayls View Post
    But the real question is what are you doing about it?

    These and the all too numerous issues and problems which come to our attention on almost a daily basis? Or are you one of those who fall into the "... I knew this would happen" camp?

    Are you a couch critic or trying to make a difference, in your own way, within your own focus area?

    Perhaps this is worthwhile thinking about. Yes?


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    I think I try to make more of a difference than most ... hence not being easily shocked with information that has been known by those who care too.

    As I said... vindicated.

    So you're right, let's get off our asses and do something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tayls View Post
    Shocking! Why is this not being dealt with as a national priority by the SAPS? What is the current position with firearms being handed in the SAPS? Do they honestly expect law abiding citizens to trust them again?

    Where is our super keen, ever visible new Minister of Police????


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    I think we should send the minister some messages regarding this.
    Doesn't he have a twitter or something account that he asks people to post to, regarding anything we may have an issue with?

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    Quote Originally Posted by G33 View Post
    You are easily shocked.

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    How can this even pretend to shock anyone. Any crime scene involving guns generally has a Z88 in it somewhere or some R5s. Even more scarce guns like the new PX4s.

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