DAYS OF ZONDO: Suspicious ‘blue curtain’ at Crime Intelligence bedevils anti-corruption investigations, says Robert McBride By Jessica Bezuidenhout JessBezJourn
The controversial IPID unit came in for an early, special mention by IPID boss, Robert McBride, who is finally testifying before the State Capture Commission after several delays.While regulations prohibit the questionable classification of documents to prevent a cover-up of maladministration, this practice has become a “general pattern” for Crime Intelligence, he said.
While he accepted that, in part, this was due to the nature of the unit’s work, McBride said several interventions have been negotiated in order to secure cooperation within the confines of guarding the work of SAPS. While McBride has not testified to the details of this case, it appears to related to the police’s acquisition of a Grabber ahead of theOn that matter, the Inspector General of Intelligence has provided the minister of police with an information note, saying the declassification of the information did not pose a security risk to the country or the sources.”
On Thursday, he kicked off by providing an overview of the various matters he intends testifying to: Among those, the tendency to hire and fire senior government officials within the security cluster and at Sars to make way for “complaint” individuals. That, usually triggered by media leaks that then leads to a disciplinary hearing ensuring the removal of the person in question, has been noted as a trend across various government units, he said.
The Commission heard that advocate Zondo’s conduct will “briefly” come under scrutiny during McBride’s testimony. Pretorius said the question before the Commission was whether Justice Zondo, in view of his brother having presided over those hearings, ought to recuse himself from that part of McBride’s testimony or not.
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