Modack to be sentenced next month
UNDER FIRE: Alleged kingpin Nafiz Modack
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Alleged underworld crime boss Nafiz Modack was found guilty of corruption charges at the Cape Town Regional court on Friday.
The case was postponed to July 8 for Modack to be sentenced.
The conviction comes in the wake of a sentence that was handed down to former top cop Brigadier Kolindren Govender after he entered into a plea agreement with the State after he admitted that he had a corrupt relationship with Modack.
Hawks spokesperson Warrant Officer Zinzi Hani said: 'It was reported that during November 2011, Modack acted with a common purpose by paying gratification in a total amount of R146 000 to Govender in return for special treatment.
'He was also convicted of defeating the ends of justice by preventing his colleagues from performing their duties'
Subsequently, Govender also admitted that during December 2012 he intervened and stopped the recovery by police of a Mercedes Benz.
In doing so he prevented cooperation between an officer from the SAPS Paarl Vehicle Identification Section and the investigating officer in the matter based at the Cape Town Central police station.
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Hani added: 'As a result of Govender's action the Mercedes Benz was not seized.'
'The former top cop Kolindren Govender pleaded guilty to 51 charges of corruption that relate to a corrupt relationship he had with alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack.
"Govender was handed five-years imprisonment of which four and a half years were suspended, on condition that he was not convicted of corruption.'
The court ordered that the sentence would run concurrently with the six-year sentence that was handed down on a different matter.
Meanwhile, the alleged underworld figure faces over 100 charges alongside fourteen other accused in the Charl Kinnear murder trial which has been placed on hold until October.
Former Anti-Gang Unit detective top cop Kinnear was gunned down outside of his house in Bishop Lavis in September 2020.
Modack has two other pending matters including the 'Tax Matter' where he was arrested by the Hawks in 2020 accused of defrauding SARS out of R46 million.
His other matter at a High Court in Gauteng sees Modack facing firearm-related charges.
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