Cape Town - The underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack faces another high court trial, this time alongside his wife Rehana in Gauteng. The couple and others, including police officers, are charged with firearm licence fraud.
Modack was taken from Goodwood Prison and transported to Gauteng last week, where he was recharged for the firearms case months after it was provisionally withdrawn. The charges are linked to an investigation undertaken by slain Anti-Gang Unit detective Charl Kinnear and his team, which led to Modack’s arrest in June 2020, just months before Kinnear was shot and killed outside his Bishop Lavis home.
At the time, police revealed the couple, along with Modack’s younger brother, Yaseen, Rehana’s sister, Roshana, and a long list of police officers, faced charges of fraud, defeating the administration of justice and contravention of the Firearms Control Act on case dockets in Edenvale, Kempton Park and Norwood in Gauteng.
It is alleged the suspects received competency certificates, firearm licences and temporary authorisation to possess a firearm “in a wrongful manner” after making applications at several cop shops in Cape Town and Gauteng. Police also nabbed the owners of Acapulco Sports and Guns, Abdullah Mehtar and Mahomed Riaz Moosa, Abdulaliem Ismail, Faried Cassiem, Basheer Syce and Anwa Gallie.
According to the court records, while Modack and several of the accused appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday, his wife and sister in-law appeared two days earlier on their own. The duo, who are listed as the main accused on the indictment, were represented by advocate Bruce Hendricks who obtained R10 000 bail each unopposed. Hendricks could not be reached for comment.
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwane confirmed the appearance and said the case was postponed to November 13 as Modack plans to bring a bail application. Modack is standing trial in the Western Cape High Court for the murder of Kinnear.
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Cape Argus