Recording proves link between gang boss Modack and Krejcir, cop testifies

CAPE Town police are in possession of an audio recording which supposedly proves a relationship between alleged Cape Town gang boss Nafiz Modack and convicted Czech mafioso Radovan Krejcir.

Colonel Charl Kinnear told the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court yesterday he was in possession of the September recording‚ in which a voice can be heard allegedly telling Modack to conduct a R12-million debt collection for Krejcir.

Kinnear said the money had to be picked up from the wife of late Johannesburg strip club owner Lolly Jackson and would be split 50/50 between the two.

He was testifying for the fourth day at the bail hearing of five men accused of extorting R90 000 from the Grand Cafe in Green Point. The five are Modack‚ Colin Booysen‚ Ashley Fields‚ Jacques Cronje and Carl Lakay.

Additional case dockets are expected to be opened against the men after various establishments reportedly approached the police following the men’s arrest on December 15‚ wanting to open similar extortion cases.

Kinnear also testified that Modack’s former “muscle”‚ Igor Russol‚ whom he brought in from the Ukraine‚ had turned state witness and alleged that Modack was plotting the assassinations of alleged Sexy Boys gang boss Jerome “Donkie” Booysen and businessman Mark Lifman.

Kinnear said Russol claimed that once Modack had taken over Cape Town‚ his business partner Booysen would also be killed.

Russol had been asked to facilitate a meeting between Booysen and Lifman at which Modack would ask for peace‚ allegedly going on to make his move when his enemies were at ease.

The five accused will spend their fourth weekend behind bars after the bail hearing was adjourned yesterday until Thursday next week.

Kinnear’s testimony has implicated the five in the murders of bouncers at establishments including The Beerhouse in Long Street‚ Hotel 303 in Sea Point and Cubana in Green Point.

On Tuesday‚ Kinnear named four top policemen believed to be under Modack’s influence.

He also said if the accused were released, he believed more murders would be committed in Cape Town.