Drama over Free State cops’ interference in investigations into organised crime

This is as the trial of eight men accused of murdering Dr Louis Siemens continues in the Bloemfontein High Court.

“There are cases involving politicians and members of the service, which, in a normal situation, would be brought together to be investigated by one team. Senior management is deliberately ignoring these as such an investigation will prove the organised nature of the crimes,” said the letter. “The team I am talking about is the same team investigating the murder of Louis Siemens. All the cases have one thing in common. People were shot dead, there were tenders worth hundreds of millions and senior politicians in the province are allegedly involved. It is not rocket science to see that the modus operandi is the same and that it is organised crime.”

In the letter, which City Press has seen, counterintelligence officials alleged that police management orchestrated delaying tactics in Siemens’ murder investigation with the purpose of defeating the ends of justice. Provincial National Prosecuting Authority’s spokesperson Phaladi Shuping declined to comment about the David Sempe and [Solly] Lesia subpoenas. “We cannot comment on the matter because it is sub judice,” Phaladi said. Free State police spokesperson Brigadier Motantsi Makhele also declined to comment about the subpoena and referred the rest of the questions to the police’s national spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo.

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