‘Death threats’ over badly dented Ferrari
● A crashed Ferrari and an R800 000 repair bill are at the centre of a legal fight between reputed Cape Town mafioso Nafiz Modack and a Durban panelbeater.
Modack appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court this week on charges of extortion and intimidation — causing a stir when he arrived surrounded by a heavy private security detail armed with assault rifles because of what he says is a R20-million bounty on his head.
He found himself on the wrong side of the law in Durban, too, when panelbeater Selvan Naick approached the high court on Friday to stop police removing Modack’s Ferrari from his auto shop and to seek protection from the alleged gangster.
Naick, the owner of Gabby’s Auto Tech in Ballito, claimed in an urgent application brought by Advocate Shan Govender that Modack had sent him death threats and lied to police about his Ferrari being stolen.
The matter was temporarily withdrawn after Naick was assured the car would not be removed until his bill was settled.
In his application Naick said: “According to Nafiz, his friend drove and crashed the Ferrari on March 8 after attending a birthday party in Durban.
He told me the vehicle was not insured. Nafiz informed me that he was in Cape Town and that I should go to Umhlanga Rocks to have the damages assessed. He promised to settle the repair bill from a property he said he had put on sale for R3-million.”
Naick said the car had been at his workshop since March 15 and his team had done extensive work on it.
On Friday, Modack’s attorney Bruce Hendricks said that Modack would settle Naick’s bill for the Ferrari repairs, but he couldn’t say when this would take place.