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MK party MP Vusi Shongwe alleges Crime Intelligence officer Feroz Khan offered to 'look after' him and a businessman offered R10-million
via The Namibian7 min read
MK party member of Parliament Vusi Shongwe testified before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, alleging that Crime Intelligence officer Feroz Khan offered to 'look after' him and a cigarette businessman, Yusuf Kajee, offered him R10-million. Shongwe stated that this occurred after he raised issues about Khan in Parliament. He recounted a meeting in Durban, arranged after former President Jacob Zuma's personal assistant, Londiwe Xulu, contacted him. At this meeting, attended by Kajee and a man named Imran, Khan allegedly joined via video call, asking Shongwe, 'What do you want? We can look after you.' Shongwe claims Kajee then offered him a R2-million monthly security tender and later '10 bar' R10-million in cash. Shongwe reported these events to former President Zuma and his son Duduzane Zuma, with Zuma expressing surprise as he had only been told the meeting was to praise their work on the ad hoc committee. Shongwe had been interested in Khan's involvement in a 2021 cocaine interception, an alleged cover-up in a make-up artist's murder, and cigarette smuggling cases. Khan is currently hospitalized after a shooting and was unable to testify before the commission as scheduled.
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