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By Mzilikazi Wa Afrika, Karabo Ngoepe, Bulelwa Payi 
1 hour ago
Cape Town – Assassinated lead police officer Charl Kinnear was allegedly investigating a gun rampage at the police headquarters in Pretoria that involved high-ranking officers before he was killed.
“He (Kinnear) was about to arrest two brigade members involved in cloning the firearm registry and in licensing gangsters who use them to buy automatic rifles,” said a senior police officer, who asked to remain anonymous.
The anti-gang unit detective was shot and killed outside his Bishop Lavis home last Friday.
Zane Kilian, 39, a former rugby player for the Falcons and Griquas, was implicated in the murder and was arrested in Springs, Joburg. He appeared under heavy police protection in Bishop Lavis Magistrates Court on Friday.
Kilian, who is a debt collector and also owns a tracking and investigation company, had allegedly been tracking Kinnear’s cell phone for months.
Kilian faces charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and illegal wiretapping.
“I have been reliably informed that Kinnear’s phone was tapped 4,800 times when he was killed,” the officer added.
A senior intelligence official said on Saturday that the officers were caught in a crossfire between senior police officers who took sides in the criminal investigations.
“The problem is that some senior police officers are involved in all this. Police and criminal intelligence officers take bribes from criminals to ping investigators and help the underworld track their movements. There is no control within the police to clean up the internal rot, that’s one of the reasons these underworld criminals can do whatever they want. “
Kilian reportedly told police that he was hired by a single client named Mohamed who wanted to trace his wife’s phone and claims that he did not know that the phone belonged to Kinnear.
Kilian has been linked to the alleged Cape Town underworld boss Nafiz Modack.
Modack posted photos of Kilian on Facebook in March, with a message “all JHB debt collectors must go through Kilian, call him.”
Kinnear was the investigating officer in the extortion case against Modack, Colin Booysen, Ashley Fields, Jacques Cronje and Carl Lakay.
Kilian was due to appear in court again on October 5.
The Hawks are expected to make more arrests this week.
Hawks spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi said investigators worked 24 hours a day and more arrests were imminent as more evidence was collected and analyzed.
Private investigator Paul O’Sullivan offered a reward of one million rand for information that could lead to the arrest of those responsible for Kinnear’s murder.
He said: “We have been receiving information through calls and emails. We pass information on to investigators as we are not involved in the actual investigation. The information was useful enough to lead to an arrest. ”
He said that no one had come forward to claim the reward. “They show up because they want to do their civic duty.”
Kilian’s legal representative, attorney Eckhard Rosemann, said he had received an indication from the state that he would not object to his client’s bail or could even drop the charges.
This followed revelations that two people were briefly detained for questioning on Friday.
“They were brought in for questioning … That’s all I can say,” said an investigator who referred additional inquiries to the Hawks’ national spokesman.
Rosemann was not involved in reports that those questioned were allegedly “the shooter (who pointed the gun at Kinnear) and the driver.”
The spokesperson for the State Security Agency, Mava Scott, said yesterday that citizens should not be in possession of devices or software that could be used to track and locate people.
Private investigator Wouter de Swardt also explained that legal permission to monitor someone else’s movements can only be obtained through a court order.
A senior crime expert who did not want to be named said the murder of the police officer has highlighted “many problems that need to be investigated.”
“The genesis of this might not even be local.”
On Sunday, the prosecutor asked the Independent Police Investigations Directorate (Ipid) to investigate the possible involvement of the police in Kinnear’s murder of Charl Kinnear.
“If these reports are to be believed, Kinnear would have possibly exposed large-scale corruption within the ranks of the CFR (Central Firearms Registry). The district attorney believes that Ipid has an important role to play in exposing the rot in the South African Police Services (SAPS) that may have led to the heinous murder of Kinnear. Ipid simply cannot fold his arms and allow the people who potentially planned this vile act to continue working within SAPS, ”said DA shadow police minister Andrew Whitfield.
“If we don’t protect the police and women who expose corruption within SAPS, the fight against crime in this country will never be successful. Rot within the police force is one of the greatest threats to our national security and dishonest police officers should be exposed and put behind bars.
“Honest police officers, like Kinnear, who seek to expose corruption must be protected so that those with nefarious goals and with ties to the criminal underworld can be removed from the system,” Whitfield said.
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