Despite Arthur Fraser no longer working for the State Security Agency (SSA), former intelligence services minister Ronnie Kasrils will not let go of allegations that the former spy boss forged his signature to establish the allegedly illegal Principal Agent Network (PAN). Kasrils said in an interview with Business Day on Tuesday that he had met his lawyers last week and instructed them to write to Inspector-General of Intelligence Setlhomamaru Dintwe and the new SSA acting director-general, Loyiso Jafta, on the matter. Fraser was shifted from the helm of the SSA to the post of national commissioner of correctional services two days before he was set to go head-to-head with Dintwe on April 19. Dintwe had filed an urgent high court application challenging the move by Fraser to revoke his security clearance amid an investigation in which Fraser was directly implicated. The urgent part of the application was dropped after Dintwe had provisionally regained his security clearance followin...

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