Detective reveals Molefe’s link to ‘cop turned hitman’

WITNESS A's testimony at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has connected the dots and shown a web of systemic rot where a police officer became a hitman on behalf of the criminal syndicate that sought to eliminate a ‘threat.

- GCWALISILE KHANYILE

Cellphone evidence, CCTV footage, and car-tracking information presented by Witness A at the commission put controversial businessman and murder-accused Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe, and police officer Warrant Officer Michael Pule Tau, among others, at the centre of the murder of Armand Swart, an employee of a Vereeniging engineering company, who was shot dead after alleged hitmen mistook him for his boss.

Molefe is out on R400 000 bail for the murder of DJ Sumbody. He is charged alongside three alleged hitmen, Tau, Musa Kekana, and Tiego Floyd Mabusela.

It was revealed that Tau’s cellphone is the one that gave links to the investigators, showing that the police officer was in constant communication with Molefe.