Krejcir jigsaw puzzle takes shape
THE network of enforcers, “creative” accountants and crooked cops surrounding Radovan Krejcir is fast unravelling.
The mobster, who has been sentenced in absentia in his homeland, the Czech Republic, returns to the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court, near Johannesburg, tomorrow, where he is expected to apply for bail.
Unlike his co-accused, who include two members of the Hawks, Krejcir has spent the past week in a private hospital after claiming he was assaulted and tortured by the police.
Krejcir and Desai Lupondo will appear with Hawks warrant-officers Samuel “Saddam” Maropeng and Machache Nthoroane on a charge of attempted murder and kidnapping.
The four are accused of assaulting an East Rand businessman in June this year.
A police detective close to the investigation said an investigation into Maropeng’s possible involvement in the murder of slain drug dealer Sam Issa, who was gunned down in Bedfordview in October, was also almost complete.
On the day of Issa’s murder, witnesses said they saw a white double-cab bakkie with police lights leaving the scene. This led to rumours that the police were seeking Maropeng.
The detective said: “Issa was shot with an R5 assault rifle, the type used by the police. The pieces of the puzzle are fitting together.”
Other people who had close relations with Krejcir and who have fallen foul of the law include:
Krejcir’s so-called business manager, Ivan Savov, who will spend Christmas behind bars after he was refused bail. Savov is facing charges of fraud and money laundering;
Notorious mafioso Glenn Agliotti, who was this week provisionally sequestrated because of a massive outstanding tax bill. It emerged that he took a R400 000 loan from a Krejcircontrolled company; and
Colonel Francois Steyn, head of the police’s organised crime unit on the East Rand, who is on “leave” after also admitting to having accepted a loan from Krejcir’s company.
Steyn claimed he did not know Groep Twee Beleggings was owned by Krejcir’s wife.