Cape Town 'gang' cases progress slowly to trial
Delays range from battles raising money for lawyers, to new arrests added to the charge sheet, and busy courts.
However, even with modern investigative techniques that can retrieve WhatsApp messages, location data, and CCTV and cellphone camera footage to build cases where the paperwork would fill the back of a large bakkie, many logistical requirements still have to be filled. However, for the accused not on bail, it is a long cycle of pre-trial processes, with police vans bringing them from prisons around the province, then the long drive back afterwards.The"Nafiz Modack Enterprise" case was triggered by the murder of Anti-Gang Unit detective Charl Kinnear in 2020.
Modack has two other cases against him and others: one for R46m in VAT refund fraud with Faried van der Schyff, Modack's mother Ruwaida Modack, his brother Yaseen Modack, Bashier Syce, Nadia Sait, Dominique McLachlan, Kulsum van der Schyff and Layla Bedderson. This was also postponed to 29 January 2024 due to lawyer issues.
He allegedly paid Govender to find missing cars for him without it going through the usual stolen car database. Govender pleaded guilty and served his time. Modack says Govender lent him money, and he was paying him back.If Nafiz Modack wants to meet people to ask for money, the Hawks need to vet them first, state saysMark Lifman, Jerome Booysen, and others will go on trial for the 2017 murder of convicted steroid smuggler Brian Wainstein on 22 July 2024.
Stanfield regards this as a civil dispute that involved no violence. They are currently in the process of applying for bail, which resumes on 17 October. The State alleges Stanfield heads The Firm and works with the 28s prison number gang.
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