Witnesses had to lie under oath in case against me, says police’s Andre Lincoln
In 1996 Lincoln was personally picked by late president Nelson Mandela to investigate organised crime headed by then Italian mafia boss Vito Palazzolo
The investigation into Maj-Gen Andre Lincoln was a conspiracy by apartheid-era police to keep him out of the Western Cape‚ the High Court in Cape Town heard on Monday. Lincoln also said that winesses were "pressurised into giving false statements and forced to lie under oath" by police with "hidden agendas" and who knew how to "set you up"‚ as his cross examination continued. In 1996 Lincoln was personally picked by late president Nelson Mandela to investigate organised crime headed by then Italian mafia boss Vito Palazzolo. Lincoln also uncovered a plot to kill the former head of state. The top cop is now suing the former head of state security for R15m for what he described as "malicious prosecution". He told the court last week that senior police officials had gone to extreme lengths to blow his cover after telling Palazzolo that he was being investigated. Lincoln faced criminal charges‚ most of which he was acquitted of, before having 17 convictions set aside on appeal. "I had n...
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