Tales from the Underworld A fugitive, a strip bar owner and a fall guy
| Lolly Jackson was just one of the unsavoury players on the Joburg organised crime scene
A Czech businessman and fugitive who arrived in South Africa in April 2007 on a false passport from the Seychelles. He then set up a network involving strip-club owners, gold and diamond dealers and top cops.
He was arrested on an Interpol notice despite having a false passport, but was granted bail. For more than two years he remained mostly under the radar, setting up an elaborate network of contacts. He is currently facing attempted murder and kidnapping charges and is being kept in the Kgosi Mampuru II prison after being arrested on attempted murder and kidnapping charges.
Krejcir and three other coaccused are also facing charges of allegedly killing Lebanese national Sam Issa. They will be back in court for this matter on April 8.
The flamboyant Teazers boss loved flashy cars and women. Jackson liked to say his dad had warned him: “If it has tits or wheels, it will give you trouble.”
But he chose both. Jackson was killed at a house in Kempton Park on May 3 2010.
He was known to have “bad, unsavoury connections”. He and Krejcir were apparently close friends and were implicated in a money-laundering scheme.
A Cape Town underworld figure who was killed in the city on May 21 2011 in a drive-by hit. Beeka was once considered a suspect in Jackson’s murder. In the 1990s he was known in the underworld for his protection services at nightclubs.
Beeka was the subject of a presidential task team probe into his protection racket.
The head of the task team, Andre Lincoln, charged him with intimidation.
He had links with Yuri “the Russian” Ulianitski before Ulianitski was shot dead on his birthday in 2007 in Cape Town. Beeka had links with intelligence circles and was once a close friend of Krejcir before a fight soured their relationship.
Mabasa is a former Gauteng crime intelligence boss with links to Krejcir.
In 2010 he was transferred from his position as head of crime intelligence for Gauteng back to head office in Pretoria, after questions were allegedly raised about his relationship with Krejcir.
Krejcir’s wife, Katarina, and Mabasa’s wife, Dorcas, started a company and became co-directors of it in 2009.
In 2011 Mabasa was discharged because “his services were no longer needed and because it was in the interest of the service to discontinue his job”, the police announced.
Cypriot Louca is facing charges in the Palm Springs Regional Court in connection with Jackson’s murder.
This follows his extradition from Cyprus. Louca is dying of lung cancer and is being treated in an undisclosed prison hospital.
Louca met Krejcir after he was arrested for possession of stolen goods in 2007 and was detained in Kempton Park. Krejcir had earlier been picked up on an Interpol warrant.
The pair struck up a friendship and Louca was soon on Krejcir’s payroll. Louca once told the Sunday Times that, on Krejcir’s instruction, he opened a forex account in Cyprus so that the Czech’s mother, Nadedza Krejcirova, could transfer R100-million to her son.
In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Times in Cyprus in 2011, where he fled after the Jackson murder, Louca stated: “If I go under, I will not go down alone, a lot of important people will go down with me. I will pay the consequences, but they will as well.”