Modack trial: Detective denies being aware Modack infiltrated police unit

CAPE TOWN - A police detective has denied being aware of alleged underworld gang boss Nafiz Modack allegedly attempting to infiltrate the Anti-Gang Unit (AGU). 

The AGU member gave testimony linked to a botched hand grenade attack on slain top cop Charl Kinnear in 2019. 

Modack and 14 co-accused face 122 charges for various crimes, including the murder of Kinnear in September 2020. 

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Captain Franklin Stone took the stand and testified he was part of an AGU team that transported co-accused Yannick Adonis to court in 2019. 

At the time, Adonis was being held at Malmesbury prison, while on trial for murder at the Khayelitsha Magistrate's court.  

Stone told the court Adonis requested to meet AGU General Andre Lincoln to share information in return for bail or a lighter sentence. 

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The captain told the court he was not aware voice messages from Modack, offering money for inside information were being sent to his state-issued phone. 
 
Stone said the messages were deleted before he could hear them as other members of the AGU had access to the phone. 
 
The trial continues.