‘They wanted to assassinate me’ - Modack
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Alleged underworld kingpin, Nafiz Modack, claims he hired his co accused to ping the cellphone of slain Anti-Gang Unit detective Charl Kinnear, amid a plot to kill him.
In his shocking claims at the Western Cape High Court, Modack alleged that Kinnear conspired with alleged Sexy Boys gang boss Jerome "Donkie" Booysen to murder him.
Taking the stand for the third day, Modack outlined his relationship with former Rugby player Zane Kilian and denied that he instructed Kilian to ping Kinnear on the day he was killed.
Kilian is charged alongside Modack and 13 others in the mammoth underworld trial centred on the murder of Kinnear who was shot and killed outside his Bishop Lavis home in September 2020.
The group face a combined 124 charges of which several include the illegal interception of cellphone information.
According to the state’s case, Kilian used the LAD platform to trace various targets identified by Modack including Kinnear and criminal attorney William Booth.
The state alleges that the pinging of Kinnear’s phone and the tracing of his personal details is what led the lone gunman to his home on the day he was murdered.
In his testimony Monday, Modack admitted to hiring Kilian after meeting him in Johannesburg to ping Kinnear but says Kilian's task was to ascertain if he was meeting with Booysen.
Quoting case numbers, Modack said he had opened charges of extortion, corruption and defeating the ends of justice.
“I got info that they wanted to assassinate me," he claimed.
He said he did not know that Kinnear was killed on the day of the shooting but claims Advocate Bruce Hendricks informed him.
Modack said after Kinnear’s murder he was questioned by the Hawks who believed he was behind the shooting on the home of Bradley Goldblatt, a state witness in the trial. But says at the time he was never questioned about Kinnear’s murder.
Modack also claimed of of the detectives in the Kinnear murder, Colonel Eddie Clarke, warned him he would be arrested on various charges if he didn't pay them R500 000.
The trial continues.
Cape Times