Former KZN cop’s corrupt relationship with crime boss leads to jail time

'RECEIVED GRATIFICATIONS'

- NADIA KHAN

AN ALLEGED underworld crime boss who paid over R100 000 to a high-ranking former KwaZulu-Natal police officer, has been sentenced to seven years behind bars.

Nafiz Modack, 44, was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for corruption in the Cape Town Regional Court last Friday.

Three years of the sentence was suspended for a period of five years.

He was also declared unfit to possess a firearm.

Lieutenant-Colonel Siyabulela Vukubi, a Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigation (Hawks) spokesperson in the Western Cape, said between 2011 and 2013, Modack was involved in criminal activities with former senior police officer, Brigadier Kolindren Govender, who was the station commander at the Cape Town Central SAPS at the time.

"An investigation by the Hawks' Serious Corruption Investigation revealed that Modack acted with common purpose by paying gratification in a total amount of R146 000 to Govender in return for special treatment.

"By endorsing these corruption activities, Govender prevented a cooperation between an officer from Paarl SAPS vehicle identification section, and the investigating officer in a matter based at Cape Town Central SAPS. As a result of Govender's actions, a Mercedes-Benz which belonged to Modack and was the centre of investigation, was never seized," he said.