Selebi was working for intelligence – former spy boss

Former National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s relationship with convicted drug lord Glenn Agliotti, which ended with a criminal conviction and a 15-year jail sentence, was an intelligence operation authorised by the country’s intelligence bosses at the time. A report in The Sunday Independent says this claim is expected to be part of new evidence and affidavits that will form the basis of an application to the NPA to review Selebi’s case. Former Crime Intelligence boss Mulangi Mphego reportedly told the newspaper there was a grave injustice in the way Selebi was tried. Evidence had been ‘suppressed’ and ignored to secure Selebi’s conviction. The report says Mphego’s claims were independently corroborated by two former intelligence bosses. According to Mphego, Selebi had been tasked by the National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee to pursue a relationship with Agliotti as he had been identified as a suspect in extortion, money-laundering and drug-related crimes.

Full report in The Sunday Independent