One of the private investigators hired by Ford in its attempts to escape blame for Reshall Jimmy's death in one of its vehicles has been fired for allegedly lying to the car maker's lawyers.
During this week's Cape Town inquest into Jimmy's death, his family's advocate, Gerrie Nel, pointed out discrepancies in statements taken by private investigator John Nomdoe which could amount to fraud.
The car maker's investigators took statements from police witnesses which contained hearsay information absent from earlier police statements. Retired police officer JD Kotze, owner of the investigations firm, terminated Nomdoe’s services this week after he allegedly lied to him and Ford's attorneys, Hogan Lovells, about commissioning the statements with a police officer present."Your actions are not acceptable and I cannot tolerate these procedural irregularities," Kotze told Nomdoe.
They said Nemeth asked them to include certain details, such as claims that they saw a vehicle making a u-turn near the scene of the fire and that a police officer at the scene made a passing comment that the victim had a hole in his head. Nemeth was recalled to the US in May 2017 after numerous Kugas caught fire, leading to the recall of 4,550 vehicles.
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