Jonas earlier told the Zondo inquiry that the Hawks were reluctant to investigate his claims, but this was not so, Hawks deputy head Lieutenant General Yolisa Matakata testified.
The judicial commission of inquiry into state capture has heard how former deputy minister of finance Mcebisi Jonas was contacted twice by former Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza after he failed to cooperate in the unit’s Gupta investigation.
Matakata said Mnonopi had raised concerns with Ntlemeza that she had been trying to get hold of Jonas to get his statement, and asked Ntlemeza to intervene. Ntlemeza told him that the DA and Cope had opened cases relating to his interview in the media about being in the Gupta house, she said.She said Ntlemeza then called Jonas again, informing him that Mnonopi had been trying to get hold of him to obtain a statement.
She said the Hawks requested that Mbete intervene, “due to the non-cooperation of the deputy minister, in the investigation [of] the Hawks at the time, after it had arranged several times to get a statement from him”.
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