Co-accused Amaal Jantjies
Cape Town - An Elsies River woman is accused of conning alleged underworld kingpin, Nafiz Modack, into believing she had infiltrated the police’s Anti-Gang Unit (AGU), to provide information into an investigation against him.
The Hawks have lifted the lid on alleged false claims made by Amaal Jantjies, as she claimed that alleged Sexy Boys gang boss, Jerome “Donkie” Booysen, was colluding with the elite unit.
Modack and Jantjies, along with their co-accused, returned to the Western Cape High Court this week as police continue to reveal the details of text messages, calls and voice notes linked to the conspiracy to murder AGU detective, Charl Kinnear.
Jantjies and her ex-boyfriend and co-accused, Janick Adonis, are at the centre of the grenade attack plot on Kinnear's Bishop Lavis home in November 2019.
In earlier testimonies, Judge Robert Henney was told the couple had started working with AGU in a bid to get cops to help them secure bail for Adonis, who was facing attempted murder charges at the time.
Now, in explosive testimony by Hawks detective Captain Trevor Shaw, he has revealed that Jantjies fabricated messages to Modack to make him believe she had infiltrated the AGU after receiving R64 000 and a BMW from him.
In his testimony, Shaw explained that a text message found on one of Jantjies’s phones and sent to Modack, indicated that she allegedly obtained information from the AGU base.
The message, which is riddled with spelling errors, indicates that an officer allegedly told her that cops are busy probing Modack and she further claimed that Booysen was present as police discussed the investigation.
"I heard today that Donkie was also in the meeting and ‘they will hit your place in two weeks,’" the message reads.
Shaw said on further investigation while analysing the texts on both of her phones, it was found that Jantjies created the message on one phone and sent it to her second phone on WhatsApp. The message was then forwarded to Modack to make him believe she had obtained it from another person. Shocking video footage aired in court also showed how Jantjies allegedly conspired with her ex-husband, Abraham Jantjies, to carry out a hit at the Kinnear home.
The trial has been postponed.
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Cape Argus
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