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Court grants Padayachee access to Crime Intelligence premises
A court ordered that any member wanting access to Crime Intelligence premises must contact investigating officer Mr Padayachee — part of the formal investigation into the secret account.
Described by 3 witnesses
Lt Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanaziday 3Brian Padayachee (Senior Investigator, IDAC;day 141Advocate Johnsonday 150
Each of these people gave first-hand evidence about this event. Several accounts of the same event is a property of the record — it is not verification, and witnesses can be mistaken together.
14 claims from testimony
"the Court gave instruction on the bail condition that if these members wants anything at Crime Intelligence’s premises, they must contact an investigating officer, Mr Padayachee"
"It is the Magistrate that grants this Padayachee right to have access to Crime Intelligence"
"they were prohibited from being at any premises of Crime Intelligence within the Republic while their criminal trial is pending"
"Accused number 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are prohibited from being at any premises of Crime Intelligence within the country RSA while the matter is pending."
"it is one of the conditions that I requested that the Crime Intelligence officers with the Secret Service account is that they be prohibited from entering those premises"
"Mr Brian Padayachee will assist the accused with the collection of any matters or… Something: …items of personal nature the accused may have on same left at the premises of any Crime Intelligence office."
"we consider the Crime Intelligence officers, especially where the Secret Service Fund was, as crime scenes."
"they are not permitted to go to the Crime Intelligence offices because of the witnesses"
"the Crime Intelligence offices is where, it is a crime scene"
"that bail condition was way too wide for every Crime Intelligence within the country."
"the purpose for which I understood they were going to ask for that condition was merely based on the fact that there were witnesses still employed within Crime Intelligence and that these witnesses feared any of the accused coming back."
"but not the barred them from every Crime Intelligence office in the country"
"I did not understand why they could not go to any Crime Intelligence office in the country"
"It was just that office where there were witnesses"