The Johan Booysen / Cato Manor Cops Thread

[ToxicBunny]

Surprised it took this long tbh....

 

[LazyLion]

Surprised it took this long tbh....

I hope he sues them for wrongful arrest and defamation!

 

[Grant]

Biased reporting FTMFL....

I've dealt with that Police STation before... they're a bit rough, but the majority of those boys are good and just want to make things better.

i have had dealings with them a long time back

very sporting chaps indeed, they accept the cash payment of "admission of guilt fines" for almost any offence if it is late enough at night.

 

[Fudzy]

Jiba must now either come clean or face some charges.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Jiba must now either come clean or face some charges.

Agreed, what the hell did Jiba want with this little charade.... what was in it for him.

 

[Fudzy]

Agreed, what the hell did Jiba want with this little charade.... what was in it for him.

Him? Wasn't there a prominent Ferrari driving Durban businiessman who was involved with this all somehow?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Eish... twas a her... oops...

 

[Paul Hjul]

the article sadly looses sight of the real problem with Cato Manor and the selective militarization of the police

we've dismantled most specialization in the police but created under-equipped (not SWAT) gang units and it is bound to be a problem - especially when the president deploys same to a "service delivery protest" ...

 

[Xena1]

Again, don't get me wrong - I'm not saying these guys are angels and if they are found to have transgressed the Law, then they must be dealt with accordingly.

Booysen has been proven innocent and it will be the same with the rest. It is awesome that he is now free, but what about his dignity and the way in which they were arrested for all the world to see? Nothing will come of that!! Do your job too well in the police force by really making a difference with crime and you are hunted

 

[Xena1]

Why? Because he has some dirt on some serious ANC criminals thats why

You stole my sentence

 

[LazyLion]

The state will have to pay damages to the family of a taxi boss killed by members of the police's disbanded Cato Manor organised crime unit.....
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/05/30/cato-damages-victory

 

[LazyLion]

CATO MANOR COPS IN COURT

Twenty-seven detectives from the now disbanded Durban Organised Crime Unit appeared in the city's high court on Monday.

The case was adjourned to February 11.

The accused, who occupied the entire dock and two other rows, face 116 charges, ranging from 28 murders to racketeering and defeating the ends of justice.

The group allegedly carried out paid hits in the KwaZulu-Natal taxi wars. The charges cover the period 2008 to 2011.

They were arrested more than two years ago. Two of the accused detectives have since died.

Another two accused had resigned from the police for jobs in the private sector at the time of the arrests.

The accused were suspended and had been out on bail and "at home and in limbo ever since", one detective told Sapa before going into court.

Their boss, Major General Johan Booysen, was in court to support his former colleagues. He sat next to them while they stood throughout the proceedings.

Booysen, the former head of the Hawks in KwaZulu-Natal, was suspended pending the outcome of an internal disciplinary hearing next month.

He was cleared of racketeering charges in a high court hearing earlier this year.

Carl van der Merwe, for the detectives, applied for more information as well as further particulars on the indictment.

Prosecutor Sello Maema, one of six advocates flown in from Pretoria for the brief hearing, told Judge Kate Pillay that the particulars the defence wanted involved between 7000 and 8000 pages.

If the State "pressurise ourselves and work very hard", it could have them ready in six months, Maema said.

When asked by Pillay how many firearms were involved, Maema said "numerous".

The detectives had gathered at a nearby restaurant before the hearing, where the mood was upbeat.

"We are quite confident. We have been through every single allegation and, to me, there is no case," said one detective.

Members of the Durban Organised Crime Unit Facebook page, which has 14,212 followers, were in court to support the detectives.


Source : Sapa /str/mr/ar/th
Date : 23 Jun 2014 13:58

 

[LazyLion]

CATO MANOR COPS TO APPEAR IN COURT

Twenty-seven detectives from the now-disbanded Durban Organised Crime Unit were expected to appear in the city's high court on Wednesday.

The accused face 116 charges, ranging from 28 murders to racketeering and defeating the ends of justice.

The group allegedly carried out paid hits in the KwaZulu-Natal taxi wars. The charges cover the period 2008 to 2011.

They were arrested more than two years ago. Two of the accused detectives have since died.

Another two accused had resigned from the police for jobs in the private sector at the time of the arrests.


Source : Sapa /gf/lp
Date : 11 Feb 2015 02:01

 

[LazyLion]

Hawks boss: I was 'set up' to silence corruption

Top KZN cop Johan Booysen is hauling the state to court, claiming he was falsely accused to put a lid on his corruption-busting activities.

Major General Johan Booysen says he has no plans to quit, despite being 'maliciously' prosecuted alongside members of the Cato Manor organised crime unit. (Madelene Cronjé, M&G)

KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major General Johan Booysen is suing the state for R10.5-million in damages following his arrest and prosecution, with members of the Cato Manor organised crime unit, over allegations they were operating a “death squad”.

The 57-year-old police officer was charged with racketeering, murder and defeating the ends of justice in 2012 by the then acting national director of public prosecutions, Nomgcobo Jiba. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has now taken Jiba to court on two counts of fraud and one of perjury relating to her failed attempts to prosecute Booysen.

Booysen’s letter of demand for R10.5-million has been sent to the NPA, the South African Police Service and police watchdog the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), which initially investigated the Cato Manor allegations.

Booysen has sought damages for malicious prosecution, contumelia (insult to dignity) and a potential loss of future income. Although he has given notice of his intention to sue in a civil court case, there has been no response to his letter of demand sent in March.

NPA spokesperson Velekhaya Mgobhozi said Booysen’s letter of demand has been referred to its legal team.

NPA turmoil

The NPA is itself in turmoil, with the embattled current national director of public prosecutions (NDPP), Mxolisi Nxasana, facing a commission of inquiry launched by President Jacob Zuma over whether he is fit for office.

In addition, the number of expensive civil suits being brought against the NPA is soaring, said legal staff. The Mail & Guardian recently reported that the former judge president of KwaZulu-Natal, Chiman Patel, is suing the state for R3-million in damages for malicious prosecution on what he claims are false charges.

By taking Jiba to court over the prosecution of Booysen, NPA staff said Nxasana is sending a strong message that the alleged abuse of its prosecutorial powers will not be tolerated.

This week Booysen told the M&G he believes he was set up and criminally charged to stop him pursuing specific cases of corruption. And although he was the prime target, it is his view that the Cato Manor unit members were “the collateral damage” in the onslaught against him.

Cato Manor police were charged with the unlawful killing of taxi operators, ATM bombers and armed robbers, and Booysen was accused of being in control of the operation.

Twenty-four police officers from the unit are still suspended on full pay, with two having died since their arrest. Booysen said the police officers are planning to mount a court challenge to their case.

“There is not one iota of evidence that Cato Manor was getting paid to stage hits on the taxi industry,” claimed Booysen, who believes the deaths of the suspects occurred either during shoot-outs or in the line of duty.

Blighted career

Booysen said his career prospects have been blighted. Because he has international police training, he was planning to apply for a post at the United Nations when he retires at 60 in three years’ time. “But now when you google my name, what comes up is ‘death squads’,” Booysen said. “What really upsets me is that much of my time over the past three years has been spent trying to clear my name, instead of using all that energy to fight criminals.”

After a series of court applications to fend off his suspension, including an interdict against national police commissioner General Riah Phiyega, who wanted him to step down, things finally turned around for Booysen. Last year Judge Trevor Gorven granted Booysen’s application to have the charges against him set aside in the Durban high court.

Continued Below....

http://mg.co.za/article/2015-04-29-hawks-boss-i-was-set-up

 

[LazyLion]

... Continued from above

In court papers, Booysen accused Jiba of being “mendacious” when she said she considered statements and other information in the police docket before making her decision to charge him. This assertion by Booysen was met with “a deafening silence” from Jiba, Gorven said in his judgment.

“Most significantly, the inference must be drawn that none of the information on which she says she relied linked Mr Booysen to the offences in question,” the judge wrote.

The documents on which Jiba says she relied did not provide a rational basis for her decision to charge Booysen, Gorven stated, adding: “Even accepting the least stringent test for rationality imaginable, the decision of the NDPP (then Jiba) does not pass muster.”

Exonerated

During an internal police disciplinary inquiry, Booysen was also exonerated by the chair, Nazeer Cassim SC. “The facts demonstrate an agenda to get rid of Booysen because he was perceived (rightly so, I may add) as a determined, professional, competent and tenacious policeman who would arduously strive to bring wrongdoers to book,” Cassim wrote in his report.

Booysen says he has vigorously pursued criminal investigations, which he believes could be the reason why charges were allegedly trumped up against him.

Some recent cases involved businessperson Thoshan Panday, who was once said to be a business partner of Zuma’s son Edward, and the police’s Colonel Navin Madhoe. Panday and Madhoe were arrested following an authorised sting operation captured on videotape.

The two men were accused of trying to bribe Booysen with R2-million to quash investigations into allegations that they ran a R60-million police accommodation scam during the 2010 football World Cup. These bribery charges were withdrawn by KwaZulu-Natal prosecutions boss Moipone Noko, and an advocate in her office declined to prosecute the police accommodation scam case.

Another case involved KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni and her relationship with Panday. When Ipid investigators were looking into whether either Ngobeni or Panday had paid for a birthday party for her husband, Brigadier Lucas Ngobeni, she refused to hand over her receipts, it was claimed in an affidavit Booysen handed to the court. An advocate in Noko’s office declined to prosecute this case against Ngobeni.

Full support

Hawks head Anwa Dramat, who was never charged but was accused for years of involvement in the illegal rendition of Zimbabweans, recently opted to resign from his job. Booysen said Dramat gave him his full support after he returned to work in September last year.

Both Dramat and suspended Ipid head Robert McBride asked Nxasana to review decisions taken in the cases involving Panday, Madhoe and Ngobeni, which are now underway, said Booysen.

Unlike Dramat and other crime-fighters who have chosen to walk away from what they see as an onslaught against them, Booysen does not plan to quit his job.

“Someone once said: ‘For evil to thrive, good men must do nothing,’” said Booysen. “I always tell my family that Nelson Mandela slept in prison for 27 years, fighting for what he believed was right, and I have only spent one night in jail even though I have been persecuted for three years.”

http://mg.co.za/article/2015-04-29-hawks-boss-i-was-set-up

 

[FNfal]

I hope Major General Johan Booysen really sticks it to those idiots that have been trying to shield Thoshan Panday .
http://www.news24.com/Tags/People/thoshan_panday

 

[FNfal]

Johan Booysen

Major-General Johan Booysen is in the firing line again .
http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/saps-mum-on-hawks-boss-booysen-1.1901243#.VdI0gbKqpBc

"Thoshan Panday, a business partner of President Jacob Zuma's son, Edward, will apparently be prosecuted for his alleged attempts to buy provincial Hawks head Major General Johan Booysen."
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/KZN-Hawks-boss-believed-to-be-interfering-20150425

There are people in the SAPS that are trying to shield Thoshan panday and so far they have got it right .
http://www.news24.com/Tags/People/thoshan_panday

They will do any thing to stop the prosecution of Thoshan panday .

"Durban - Durban businessman Thoshan Panday and police Captain Aswin Narainpershad appeared on attempted fraud and corruption charges in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday."
"Panday has been in the news recently over corruption charges for allegedly trying to bribe Hawks KwaZulu-Natal head Johan Booysen with R2m to obtain a sensitive document central to a corruption investigation."
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Durban-businessman-cop-in-court-for-fraud-20120410

 

[nightjar]

KZN Hawks head Johan Booysen suspended

“Yes we can confirm the suspension,” said Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also known as the Hawks.*“But, as you know, this is a matter between employer and employee and we are not prepared to go into the matter in the media.”

Booysen was previously suspended and accused of running a criminal enterprise consisting of members of the former Cato Manor Organised Crime Unit that he headed up. He was however later reinstated.

In February last year, Durban High Court Judge Trevor Gorven threw out the charges against Booysen. The judge went on to describe deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba’s decision to charge Booysen as “arbitrary, [and] offend the principle of legality and, therefore, the rule of law and were unconstitutional”.
http://citizen.co.za/772044/kzn-hawks-head-johan-booysen-suspended/

Through Nkosinathi Nhleko’s appointment of Mthandazo Berning Ntlemeza as head of the Hawks JZ is able to pull strings and protect criminals from prosecution.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I'm fully expecting this suspension to be complete bollocks as well and Booysen will just drag them to the cleaners again.

 

[marine1]

Jeez JZ protects his boy doesnt he?
I hope Booysen sues the fk out of the gvt