Being 'contact agent' allowed me access to SAPS information, says Mogotsi

BROWN Mogotsi, the alleged political fixer and a comrade of police minister Senzo Mchunu claims being a 'contact agent' for the crime intelligence made him privy to sensitive information regarding the SAPS and crime intelligence.

- RAPULA MOATSHE

BROWN Mogotsi, the alleged political fixer, claims his access to sensitive SAPS and crime intelligence information is legitimate, due to his involvement as a contact agent for the crime intelligence unit.

(OUPA MOKOENA Independent Newspapers)

He told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry yesterday that he was also investigating suspicions that KwaZulu-Natal SAPS Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi was an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Mogotsi claimed that the late South Africa's ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, also former Police Minister, had told him that he removed Mkhwanazi as an acting national police commissioner on suspicion that he might have been a CIA agent.

He also claimed he investigated businessman Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala at the same time, saying Matlala confessed to paying Mkhwanazi money to solve his problems.