Selebi lived 'beyond his means', court told

This, it says, was the testimony of the fourth witness in Selebi's corruption trial in the South Gauteng High Court, the director of KPMG Services, Dean Friedman. Friedman said KPMG analysed the former Interpol head's spending between 2004 and 2006. The state alleges that in that time, Selebi received about R1.2m from Algiotti in return for favours and access to police intelligence. Friedman said his team analysed deposits and withdrawals from Selebi's accounts, as well as his pension, his cheque payments and foreign-exchange transactions. Friedman told the court that Selebi's 'expenses exceeded his income' as commissioner. Monthly payments from Selebi's credit and cheque accounts of between R1 000 and R4 000 for water and electricity stopped between January and March 2005. Friedman said this suggested that Selebi was 'receiving cash from another source other than the known source of his income'. Full report in The Times

The court also heard that Selebi earned more than R143 000 from selling foreign currency between 2003 and 2006, but the state says there was no paper trail to prove who gave him the bulk of these dollars and euros. Friedman testified about Selebi's subsistence and travel slips that were provided by the police. It shows Selebi and his wife, Ann, receiving thousands in foreign currency for official trips abroad. However, the police couldn't account for the majority of the R143 193.37 Selebi coined from selling foreign currency. '(Jackie and Ann Selebi) sold more currency than what was there after the expenses had been accounted for,' Friedman testified, notes a Mail & Guardian Online report. Selebi's former friend and drug dealer Glenn Agliotti earlier told the court he paid Selebi three tranches of $10 000 each, which was paid to him (Agliotti) by Zimbabwean businessman Billy Rautenbach, allegedly to fix his (Rautenbach's) legal problems in SA. Full Mail & Guardian Online report

Friedman also told the court about the bank account of a company called Spring Lights, used by Kebble and his associate John Stratton to send Agliotti payments. Agliotti previously testified that he asked Kebble and Stratton for a $1m 'consultancy fee' for access to Selebi. The court heard about seven cash cheques taken from the Spring Lights account between June 2004 to September 2005 with values ranging from R10 000 to R200 000, says a report on the News24 site. It notes one cheque for R30 000 was drawn on 18 September 2005. Kebble had been shot dead in his car in Melrose, Johannesburg, the previous night. Full report on the News24 site