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Police Minister Bheki Cele, left, visited the family of slain Colonel Charl Kinnear, Kinnear’s wife, Nicolette, and their sons Carlisle, 24, and Casleigh, 19. (Photo: Gallo Images / Brenton Geach)
The cell phone of Lieutenant Colonel Charl Kinnear, a murdered member of the Anti-Gang Unit, was tracked on the day of his murder from 8 am to 3.25 pm. Thus the gunmen knew exactly what time to strike the fatal blow.
Charl Kinnear was murdered around 3 pm in front of his home at 10 Gearing Road, Bishop Lavis, on Friday, September 18, 2020. Seconds earlier, Kinnear had called his 24-year-old son Carlisle to move his car and be able to park your vehicle.
When Carlisle left the house he heard the barrage of shots that ended his father’s life.
Since the incident, the police have reinforced patrols in and around the house.
Research by Rogue citizen has revealed that those who wanted to eliminate the lead investigator tracked his cell phone 2,116 times between May 5 and September 18, 2020.
The cell phone of the head of the Anti-Gang Unit (AGU), Andre Lincoln, who also received death threats, was tracked 45 times.
However, on Wednesday, September 16, Lincoln was in the hospital for a minor operation and his phone could not be traced.
The kind of sophisticated equipment required for the kind of tracking the killers used is not cheap and will surely offer some clue as to who would have had the capabilities for this kind of surveillance of Kinnear.
Kinnear’s professional partner was unable to handle the tracing and constant death threats and resigned in 2019.
AGU members who visited Kinnear’s wife, Nicolette, with Police Minister Bheki Cele on Saturday, September 19, said Rogue citizen:
“Tracking of Kinnear’s and Lincoln’s phones shows that the underworld is one step ahead of us, which means that all of our lives and those of other detectives investigating high-profile travelers are in imminent danger.”
Central to the investigation are security camera footage outside Kinnear’s home that captured the shooting incident and the perpetrators who fled the scene.
Meanwhile, the investigation into Kinnear’s death has begun in Springs in Ekurhuleni, tracing the footsteps to the last place Kinnear visited before he was killed.
Last week, when Kinnear visited Springs, he was investigating the Cape Town underworld gun licensing application not approved by Northwood police.
This file is part of a larger arms trafficking investigation against suspected underworld boss Nafiz Modack and eight high-ranking police officers accused of colluding with officers of the Central Firearms Registry (CFR) to produce firearms licenses illegally.
Upon his return, Kinnear brought two extortion files involving two Cape Town underworld figures.
One of those files contains a statement from a Gauteng businessman made on August 18, 2020, stating:
“During June 2019 I made a payment in the amount of R800,000 to a figure from the underworld. Also, I did not receive any further threats from the suspects from July 2019 to August 2020.
“Since August 6, 2020, I began receiving phone calls from a Cape Town security chief who confirmed that he had received instructions to collect funds from me,” he said.
On the same day, the complainant received a WhatsApp message saying “You can hide, I understand you f # kor”.
At 11:10 AM on August 9, Gauteng businessmen received a new voice memo saying that if the final payment was not made by Friday August 14, “the wolves would get involved and this would get ugly.”
the Daily maverick The investigation further revealed that threats against Kinnear’s life have been around for almost 10 years, especially since 2018, when he, along with his colleague Major-General Jeremy Vearey, had investigated an arms trade in Durban.
This investigation had implicated hitmen, the taxi industry and high-profile politicians, but failed when they were removed from the case.
Vearey and Kinnear had finally focused on Cape Town’s underworld war for supremacy in the lucrative nightclub drug trade.
Kinnear, in a report conducted around December 2019 sent to the chief of national criminal intelligence, Lt. Gen. Peter Jacobs, exposed how a “rogue criminal intelligence unit” had attacked colleagues and interfered with investigations.
Criminal intelligence chief Peter Jacobs recommends that WC’s rogue IC unit be disbanded and members criminally investigated
Jacobs had recommended that the rogue unit be disbanded, but it still operates independently. This is one of the most pressing problems Cele must investigate.
It is common cause that Kinnear, Vearey and other colleagues did not get along with then-Western Cape Provincial Police Commissioner Khombinkosi Jula, who left office in 2019.
In an exclusive interview with Kinnear’s wife, Nicolette, shortly after Cele visited the family, he said:
“I heard your phone was traced. I haven’t seen any reports yet. You don’t have to be a scientist or a researcher to figure this out because otherwise, how else would they have known exactly what time you will be home?
“I didn’t come home at the same time every day. Some kind of technology was definitely used to track my husband and they knew exactly the time he pulled up in front of the house. “
She also confirmed that the threat to her husband’s life had existed for almost seven years, but had only come true when two men with a hand grenade were arrested in front of their home on November 23, 2019.
Two suspects and then a third were arrested in connection with the attempt to eliminate Kinnear.
Speaking of his ordeal, he said:
“Since nothing was ever done to the previous threats, we knew it was there, but it could also have been a fake. After November 23, 2019, we realized that they were serious about what they intended to do.
“That had changed our way of thinking, when and how we move in terms of alert. When we had protection we had to move with them. It wasn’t moonlight and roses because you can’t go shopping with the guards and whatever.
“So we had to adjust things, but it brought an immense calm because we saw that there is some form of surveillance and guys outside. Obviously when that was over, it became our own responsibility. “
He was unable to elaborate on whether the protection had been approved at his home in November 2019, but said:
“I don’t know the protocols and what was done to get us guards. I don’t know if it was approved and we didn’t receive any letters from SAPS.
“Before the incident with the hand grenade, we had already been under protection for a week. That was after Colonel André Kay was assassinated on November 14, 2019 in front of Bishop Lavis’s home. Shortly after that, we were put under protection due to the potential threat. I don’t know why the guards were removed; We woke up one morning to see that there was no police officer outside our house. “
In response to what can best be described as a fatal error in judgment, Cele told the media that the withdrawal of Kinnear’s protection would be investigated.
Cele admitted that things “were not done as they were supposed to” and added that “heads will have to roll.”
“As it stands, at first glance it appears that we have failed the colonel as a policeman ourselves. We could have done things better and we believe that if those things were followed, there are things that are supposed to be done that we haven’t done, “he said.
Cele said the last meeting she had with Kinnear was on Wednesday, September 16, where they discussed how to tackle an underworld operation in the Western Cape. She said that now “there would be no going back. We have to work hard to deal with the underworld. “
A leading Gauteng investigator said the minister and the police leadership faced “a gigantic task” to successfully infiltrate or prosecute the underworld.
He said the underworld was controlled by “ruthless figures” in Cape Town who used criminal elements in Gauteng to carry out extortion.
The “money” for all this was in Gauteng and that is why the crime of extortion was a key issue in dealing with that province. Mark Batchelor, who was killed in July 2019, extorted money for underworld figures in Cape Town, the source said.
“The problem is compounded by a large number of Gauteng police officers colluding with suspected drug lords and gangsters. Due to my investigations, I have received death threats from alleged leaders and police officers. Cape Town hitmen mainly carry out police killings in Gauteng. The shots are called from Cape Town.
“The Serbian mafia is also working closely with the underworld. They are highly skilled and trained assassins who ride motorcycles and kill their targets. Their trademark is shooting targets above the nose and chin, ”said the source.
This was the way that underworld kingpin Cyril Beeka was shot and killed on March 21, 2011 on Modderdam Road, Bellville.
The irony is that at the time of Beeka’s murder, Serbian fugitive Dobrosav Gavric was his passenger. Gavric survived the murder and has been fighting to escape extradition to Serbia ever since.
He fled Serbia in 2007 following the murder of Zeljko Raznatovic, a military commander known as Arkan during the conflict in the 1990s. He was sentenced to 30 years in absentia and is currently in the Helderstroom Correctional Center awaiting his extradition case. .
The source said that according to witnesses, the gunmen who shot suspected gang boss Ralph Stanfield in an attack from a vehicle in Johannesburg in July 2017 were also driving a motorcycle.
Kinnear’s wife stressed that she did not want her husband’s death to become a mere statistic.
“What was done, what was not done well for us as a family, is irrelevant because it is done,” said the excited widow.
“But if we can learn from this or the organization can learn from this and we can use my husband’s death to prevent or prevent another family from having to endure the pain that we are going through now, then I know that my husband would rejoice for the change that has brought his death.
“For me now, my fight is practically over and when my husband died, that fight stopped. But he is not the only member; there are so many other members. What I’m fighting now is for change, revisions and possibly listening to the members, their cries that ‘I’m in danger’ and that more could be thought about in that process, “she said. MC
