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News24 reports that allegations of witness intimidation have surfaced in the bail application of three men accused of hatching a plot to assassinate senior members of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru).
Testifying in the Kempton Park Regional Court on Friday, Hawks detective sergeant Norton Ndabambi said the suspected middleman in the alleged assassination plot, Neo Letele, used his own mother to intimidate a key witness. Letele shares the dock with Popcru CEO Zwelinkosi Reuben Mdletshe and Robert Sheriff. It is alleged that Mdletshe and Sheriff instructed Letele to source an assassin who would be paid R1m for the job. According to Ndabambi's testimony on Friday, the witness claimed that he received a threatening phone call from Letele's mother, who questioned him regarding the case and told him that her son was not involved in the matter. The witness made a recording of the conversation. "The mother was interfering with the case by posing questions to the witness," Ndabambi asserted. The court also heard that Mdletshe employed Letele as an IT expert at Popcru Investment Group of Companies.
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