They appeared under heavy security provided by the AGU.
AGU head Major-General Andre Lincoln sat in the public gallery to observe at the end of a dramatic week packed with appearances by Modack, regarded by some as a gang kingpin .
Accused Jacques Cronje leaving court on Friday.
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Zane Kilian appears at Cape Town Magistrate s Court on Friday.
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Nafiz Modack appears at Cape Town Magistrate.
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One of Lincoln s officers, Ashley Tabisher, is a co-accused in a corruption case with Modack and Elsie s River mom Amaal Jantjies involving an alleged R10 000 and a cellphone in exchange for telling Modack when the police were going to raid his house.
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The promise of R10 000 and a cellphone was allegedly offered to an Anti-Gang Unit member to tell attempted murder accused Nafiz Modack about any planned raids on his house.
AGU policeman Ashley Tabisher is the latest to appear in court with Modack who was arrested on attempted murder, kidnapping and intimidation charges after a police chase last week.
The draft indictment against the two also covered the complicated bonds between informants and the AGU which is still reeling after the murder of colleague Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear.
An Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) policeman was allegedly promised R10 000 and a cellphone to provide information to alleged gangster Nafiz Modack.
Bishop Lavis Magistrate s Court (Jenni Evans, News24)
A member of the police s elite Tactical Response Team was arrested for allegedly giving unsavoury underworld figures information.
The 39-year-old officer was allegedly enticed to pass Anti-Gang Unit operational information on for gratification .
The arrest comes amid the ripples caused by the attempted murder of lawyer William Booth and the assassination of AGU detective Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear.
The police arrested a Tactical Response Team (TRT) member at the weekend for allegedly passing on operational information to unsavoury underworld figures for gratification.
Police spokesperson Colonel Katlego Mogale said the 39-year-old officer will appear with three other people on charges of corruption in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate s Court in Cape Town on Tuesday.
Police Minister Bheki Cele sat in court along with the police s top brass.
Modack s supporters stood outside the court and called out to him as he left.
As an armoured vehicle whisked businessman and philanthropist Nafiz Modack away from the Cape Town Magistrate s Court on Monday, some of his supporters called out: We love you Nafiz!
Modack is known as someone who provides meals for impoverished families in some Cape Town suburbs.
He appeared in the dock along with his co-accused, Jacques Cronje and Ricardo Morgan, while police officers lined the walls of the courtroom, bearing rifles and wearing bullet-proof vests.
This was the gist of arguments by the State in opposing bail against Amaal Jantjies in the Parow Regional Court on Friday 30 April. The proceedings relate to a failed hand-grenade attack on the house of the Anti-Gang Unit’s Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear on 23 November 2019.
Modack’s name was at the centre of the State’s arguments and prosecutor Blaine Lazarus played several recordings to the court and referred to messages between Modack and Jantjies.
Jantjies, along with co-accused Farez Smith and Janock Adonis (who is Jantjies’s boyfriend), are facing several charges relating to the failed grenade attack. The trio are facing gang-related offences, including being part of a gang, five counts of conspiracy to commit murder, acquiring an explosive and unlicenced trading in firearms. Both Farez and Smith are members of the Junky Funky Kids in Manenberg.