Werksmans report ‘got it wrong and jumped to conclusions’, Robert McBride tells inquiry
The former Ipid boss has also accused former police minister Nathi Nhleko of interfering in the Werksmans investigation
Former Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) boss Robert McBride has accused former police minister Nathi Nhleko of interfering in a law firm investigation, which resulted in McBride being suspended and criminally charged in 2015. Testifying at the state capture inquiry on Friday, McBride claimed Nhleko was willing to "abuse processes to achieve his ends" after he appointed Werksmans Attorneys to probe what has become known as the Zimbabwean rendition saga. McBride and two of his colleagues, Matthew Sesoko and Innocent Khuba, were suspended and charged for defeating the ends of justice in 2015 over allegations relating to the amendment of an internal Ipid report into the illegal deportation of Zimbabwean murder suspects in 2010.
That matter was widely seen as a political manoeuvre to have former Hawks boss Anwa Dramat and his Gauteng commander, Shadrack Sibiya removed. Sibiya and Dramat both stood accused of planning and executing an operation that led to the il...
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