Probe into Mdluli ‘career-limiting’
FORMER Gauteng Hawks boss Major-General Shadrack Sibiya said yesterday his investigation of former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli turned out to be a career-limiting move for him.
Sibiya was called by the South Gauteng High Court to explain his role in the string of charges that Mdluli and his co-accused‚ Mthembeni Mthunzi‚ are on trial for.
Addressing the court, Sibiya said in 2010 deputy national police commissioner General Godfrey Lebeya had tasked him to probe Mdluli following an article in the Sowetan.
At the time‚ Mdluli was his senior.
The article was reported to have raised questions about how Mdluli was appointed to be the head of crime intelligence while he faced serious allegations.
These allegations referred to‚ among others, Mdluli’s alleged involvement in the murder of his love rival‚ Oupa Ramogibe‚ who was gunned down in Vosloorus in 1999.
“I have never heard of anyone like myself being tasked to investigate a head of intelligence of the country,” Sibiya said.
“I could see this was a career-limiting investigation. I knew it would affect many people. It affected me and not only me‚ but all who were involved.
“I found myself on the outside [of the police force] because of this project.”