Retired top cop Vearey denies Modack claims he took bribes from alleged crime bosses
Retired Major-General Jeremy Vearey took the stand on Tuesday to testify on the 25 counts of corruption Modack faces.
State witness former top cop Major General Jeremy Vearey in Nafiz Modack trial. Picture: Carlo Petersen/ Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN - Retired top cop, Major-General Jeremy Vearey, has denied allegations that he took bribes from alleged underworld figures.
The allegations were leveled by alleged underworld gang boss, Nafiz Modack, in a statement he made to police in 2018.
Modack and 14 co-accused are on trial for various crimes, including the murder of Vearey's colleague, Lieutenant Charl Kinnear, outside his Bishop Lavis home in 2020.
Vearey took the stand on Tuesday to testify on the 25 counts of corruption Modack faces.
It's the State's case that Modack tried to bribe Vearey and Kinnear to return six firearms confiscated from his home in 2017.
Modack claims he paid more than R3 million to Vearey and Kinnear via a middleman to prove they were corrupt.
In a statement, Modack alleges that Vearey was also taking bribes from other alleged underworld figures, including Jerome "Donkie" Booysen, Mark Lifman and Ralph Stanfield.
Vearey denied this, saying at the time, Booysen, Lifman and Stanfield were actually his targets.
The trial continues.