Two attempts by the sheriff of the South Gauteng High Court to serve papers on controversial policeman Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli have failed.
Legal rights group Freedom Under Law (FUL) is asking the court to interdict Mdluli from performing any police duties and to review decisions to withdraw murder and fraud charges against the controversial top cop.
In a certified document filed by the sheriff at court, the sheriff states that he failed twice to have the documents delivered to Mdluli’s house in Boksburg, on the East Rand.
One of the co-respondents in the interdict application, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, had had the papers served on him, his spokesman Zweli Mnisi said yesterday.
It has been reported that senior ANC MP Cecil Burgess has been dragged into the controversy around Mdluli. Burgess, the chairman of Parliament’s joint standing committee on intelligence, is named in a report by Hawks detective Colonel Kobus Roelofse, addressed to the commander of the Anti-Corruption Task Team in March.
The report, in which Roelofse details instances of interference in the Mdluli probe, was filed in the North Gauteng High Court yesterday as part of the FUL interdict application.
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Roelofse accuses Major-General Solly Lazarus, finance head of the police’s crime intelligence division, of attempting to influence Burgess during the Mdluli probe.
Cape Argus