other2021-06-22 – 2021-06-24E000284
Exhibit transport and registration irregularities for 541kg cocaine
Witness accounts detail the movement of the 541kg cocaine exhibits from Isipingo to Port Shepstone, with disputed SAP13 registration, instructions from Colonel Jacob, and failure to properly book exhibits in/out.
Described by 2 witnesses
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.
77 claims from testimony
"it is in line with the Port Shepstone stream"
"a container that was containing approximately 7 to 8 kilograms of Cocaine"
"suspected to be at CHS Depot, Isipingo"
"I was under the impression that drugs were long transported to forensic science laboratory, Pretoria"
"I do not know who broke into the Port Shepstone storage"
"containers that were suspected of being used to smuggle 27 kilograms of Cocaine at CHC Container Depot."
"paragraph 3 of your statement, the last sentence you refer to 7 to 8 kilogrammes of Cocaine"
"Jacob and Sibiya and everyone that has come before the Commission referred to 27 kilogrammes"
"That was given to us by the CI operation initially. Before this one."
"Yes."
"28 kilogrammes of Cocaine that you are to engage in an operation in relation to."
"Yes."
"There was no plan in place."
"Yes."
"No, it is not so."
"Jacob has come and said, he took that decision."
"moving them from the depot to Isipingo"
"Sergeant Mkhize and I were requested to assist with loading these bags into our vehicle and conveying them to Isipingo SAP."
"All four of them say they were brought in to and helped with taking these bags onto their vehicle, drove with you to Isipingo police station, these things were offloaded at Isipingo and then they left to go and carry on with their functions"
"he says he was reminded"
"Colonel Jacob must have had some discussion around the events at Isipingo"
"informing that Crime Intelligence has contacted him regarding a container at Isipingo, which might have drugs and that he was proceeding there with Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob and Warrant Officer Sibiya, all from Durban Serious Organised Crime"
"That we were going to put the drugs in Isipingo’s police station."
"the exhibits, were going to be stored at Isipingo police station?"
"Yes, that is so."
"I was instructed by Colonel Jacob that we should book the out and transport them to Port Shepstone."
"had you then had some experience about entering suspected drug exhibits in the SAPS13 register?"
"Yes, I had."
"you were to leave the exhibits at Isipingo"
"Yes, it is like that."
"the exhibit official at Isipingo"
"we were dealing with the events at Isipingo Police Station and your interaction with Warrant Officer Perumal"
"When the time arrived that he needed to leave, he actually handed over to me that I needed to go with the people to Port Shepstone to transport those goods. He then asked me to open the inquiry"
"you went back to Port Shepstone DPCI, well, Port Shepstone Police Station and DPCI offices on the 23rd and the 24th"
"Yes"
"he left from Isipingo Police Station"
"If I remember correctly"
"You entered the exhibits in the SAP13"
"the exhibits were not going to FSL, they were going to Port Shepstone"
"That is clearly misleading"
"you all knew that these exhibits were going to Port Shepstone at the DPCI office"
"In my mind I thought I will put a statement and put the chain of events indicating how it happened from Port Shepstone"
"from the period these exhibits are booked in and out of Isipingo Police Station to the time when you do the entry in the Port Shepstone SAP13, SAPS has no record of where these drugs are or where these exhibits are"
"the people who were also present at Port Shepstone did see that we were putting them into the storage"
"I remember there was an arrangement containing SAP13 register, where the exhibit clerk from Port Shepstone arrived"
"when the exhibits were stored at the Port Shepstone offices of DPCI on the 22nd, there was no SAP13 register entry on that day"
"Why did you not arrange for an SAP13 clerk from Port Shepstone on the 22nd itself to come and enter these exhibits"
"I presume that because of the fact that we have already stored them in the Port Shepstone, there was no necessity that we register them on SAP13 in Isipingo – Port Shepstone, by the way"
"the protocol or the national instruction requires that exhibits must be recorded in SAP13"
"we had already recorded them in SAP13 in Isipingo"
"they were being transported to Port Shepstone"
"I did not know that I am required to put them in SAP13"
"we are required on SAP13 that we must enter"
"now they are moving to Port Shepstone"
"taking them out of SAP13 register"
"Port Shepstone register"
"Port Shepstone, indeed"
"we know you take them on the 24th out of the Port Shepstone police station register"
"when the exhibit clerk came with SAP13"
"my work at the exhibit office includes the processing and ensuring the safeguarding of property that is handed into the SAP13 at Port Shepstone"
"I have knowledge of the entry made of exhibits under Port Shepstone SAP13"
"a large amount of Cocaine that was handed in by Detective Warrant Officer Mpangase of the Durban DPCI office"
"he was not there when the entries were made on the SAP13"
"the person who brought the SAP13 register was the person who is employed there at Port Shepstone SAPS"
"I later saw the entry made into the SAP13 in column 6"
"the entries that you made in the Port Shepstone SAP13, 3.1 to 3.31"
"You enter the exhibits in the Port Shepstone SAP13 register"
"you immediately book them out of that register"
"you are experienced in working with the SAP13 register"
"you knew that the exhibits were going to remain at the DPCI office in Port Shepstone"
"they have been taken out of the Port Shepstone SAP13 register."
"he gave instructions on the 23rd, you say, you tell us that is what you say in your statement. You had instructions to go and put the stuff in exhibit bags, to enter them in the SAP13 to go and take samples"
"541"
"I arranged with Port Shepstone Station that Warrant Officer Mpangase can enter all the Cocaine into the SAP13 and sign it out for further investigation, avoiding transporting all the Cocaine to the station due to the security risks and logistics involved"
"I told the station the Cocaine was in the process of being moved to Cape Town and it just needed to be booked in and out for the purpose of the chain of custody"
"in paragraph 16 of your statement, you say on the following day, which is the 23rd, Colonel Jacob called you to go and get FSL bags"
"General Senona said, he said it is not true that you were retiring"