Johannesburg - Glenn Agliotti, the only accused in mining magnate Brett
Kebble's murder case, maintains he is innocent while the real
killers walk free.
"I had no role to play in it," Agliotti says in a video
recording played in the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday
during the corruption trial of former top cop Jackie Selebi.
Instead he alleges the Directorate of Special Operations - also
known as the Scorpions - had no interest in convicting those
responsible for the murder.
"They didn't care a damn about the Kebble murder because they
said Kebble was a rotten piece of rubbish because he stole money
from investors."
Agliotti said the Scorpions' only interest was in bringing
Selebi down to prevent the Scorpions from being incorporated into
the police.
"They are so obsessed in discrediting Selebi and discrediting
SAPS [SA Police Service]."
Kebble was shot dead in his car in Melrose, Johannesburg, on the
night of September 27 2005.
Agliotti was arrested for the murder in November 2006 and was
set to go on trial next year.
Agliotti alleges Kebble's former head of security, Clinton
Nassif framed him after making a deal with the Scorpions. Nassif
received indemnity for charges including murder after agreeing to
be a state witness against Selebi.
Agliotti alleges the deal was made after the Scorpions charged
Nassif with insurance fraud in 2006.
In the video Agliotti says when the Scorpions arrested Nassif
they put him in Johannesburg's "Sun City" prison for a night.
"He came out and apparently he had urinated, he peed in his
pants. He said 'I will give you guys everything on the Kebble
murder but I want 204 [indemnity]'."
According to Section 204 of the Criminal Procedure Act a person
guilty of criminal conduct may testify on behalf of the State in
exchange for indemnity from prosecution.
In February 2008 charges of insurance fraud against Nassif were
withdrawn in the Randburg Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg.
On November 16, 2008, Scorpions investigator Andrew Leask
arrested Agliotti.
"I said 'what's the charge. What am I arrested for?'," Agliotti
details in the video.
He says Leask replied: "The murder, the conspiracy to commit
murder on Brett Kebble."
"I said 'you've got to be joking'."
Assisted suicide
"[He] said 'you may not have shot him or pulled the trigger but
you knew about it'... and he said 'take a bag. You're not going to
be back tonight'."
Agliotti says Kebble had dry runs to practise his "assisted
suicide".
"It was an assisted suicide. Brett got into such financial
trouble, he could not see the way out. He then planned it with
Nassif and they planned it, they prayed about it, they had dry
runs."
Nassif allegedly ordered Kebble's car to be removed from police
custody before the investigation was complete.
In the recording Agliotti also mentions two accomplices who
worked with Nassif in the murder. He refers to them as "Smith" and
"Schultz" and says he provided the Scorpions with information on
the "paper trial" showing they were paid as hitmen.
He alleges the Scorpions put these men into hiding before they
could be arrested for the murder.
Agliotti says he warned the Scorpions that Nassif was a liar,
telling them: "This Nassif is a piece of shit. He's lying to you.
How can you give a man like that 204 [indemnity]... and he keeps
lying and keeps lying and keeps lying."
Later in the video, Agliotti asks, "How can the murderers all
walk free?... I just feel where's the justice?"
- Sapa