Embattled KZN Hawks boss charged again

[ToxicBunny]

Durban - Racketeering charges have been laid against embattled KwaZulu-Natal Hawks boss Johan Booysen, the National Prosecuting Authority confirmed on Wednesday.

"The NDPP [National Director of Public Prosecutions] authorised the prosecution of Johan Booysen and the 27 members of the Cato Manor organised crime unit on racketeering charges," spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said.

"They will appear in the Durban High Court on the 19 February, 2016."

When contacted for comment, Booysen told News24 he was informed about the charges by his lawyer.

"I will just go back to court again. I will appear on Friday and I will take it from there," he said.

Last month, the High Court in Durban denied the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation's (the Hawks) application for leave to appeal a previous court decision to quash the decision to suspend Booysen.

The Hawks said it would go to the Supreme Court of Appeal after the high court dismissed its application.

Booysen was suspended by Hawks national head Major General Berning Ntlemeza in September. The court set aside the suspension in November.

Booysen insisted the move was the latest in a string of efforts to keep him out of office.

Ntlemeza claimed that Booysen had engineered a financial reward for himself and officers in his command for the killing of two suspects.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/embattled-kzn-hawks-boss-charged-again-20160217

This is actually getting childish and annoying now.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I really hope the case against Jiba puts a stop to all this crap. It's obvious political witch hunting.

 

[FNfal]

"'They should pay costs from their pockets'

Durban - Suspended KwaZulu-Natal Hawks Head Major-General Johan Booysen is asking a court to order that National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Shaun Abrahams and his team pay from their own pockets the costs of his legal challenge to their “misdeeds” in again charging him with racketeering.

Booysen and the other officers were charged with 116 charges in 2012, the racketeering ones being authorised at that time by the then acting NDPP Nomgcobo Jiba.

Booysen challenged this in court and in 2014 Durban High Court Judge Trevor Gorven set aside Jiba’s authorisation, ruling there was no evidence before her to warrant it. All charges were withdrawn against him.

Soon after an internal disciplinary inquiry, chaired by Advocate Nazeer Cassim, also cleared him of any wrongdoing and went further, indicating he was a victim of politics.

In a timeline of events in his affidavit, Booysen points to the fact that soon after the resignation “with a golden handshake” of NDPP Mxolisi Nxasana - who refused to appeal the Gorven judgment - and the appointment of Abrahams, there were internal moves to re-instate the charges.

He said Abrahams had the same documents before him as Jiba, which Judge Gorven had ruled did not amount to any evidence of racketeering.

According to the record of his decision produced by Abrahams at Booysen’s request, the only new ones were affidavits containing “hearsay twice*removed evidence” which did not implicate him or anyone else in any of the charges, and a prosecution memorandum and power point presentation “riddled with fiction, speculation and misinformation”. "
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/they-should-pay-costs-from-their-pockets-2058466
They picked on the wrong guy he will sort their shyt out for them .