Hawks officer explains how he connected crimes to show Modack was running a criminal enterprise
Lieutenant-Colonel Pieter Joubert told the court how Nafiz Modack became the common thread in various murders allegedly committed by members of the Terrible West Siders gang.
Alleged underworld gang boss Nafiz Modack in the Western Cape High Court on 6 August 2024. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/Eyewitness News
CAPE TOWN - A senior Hawks officer has started connecting the dots to show how alleged underworld gang boss, Nafiz Modack, was running a criminal enterprise.
Modack and 14 co-accused face 122 charges for various crimes, including the murder of top cop, Charl Kinnear.
The investigating officer for the Kinnear murder case is testifying about how he linked Modack to the crimes he has been accused of.
Lieutenant-Colonel Pieter Joubert told the court how Modack became the common thread in various murders allegedly committed by members of the Terrible West Siders gang.
Joubert said his investigation into the murder of Nicholaas Heerschap in July 2019 presented Modack as a person of interest.
He told the court that Heerschap's son, Nico, was a Hawks officer investigating Modack for vehicle fraud.
Joubert said that after becoming the investigating officer for the murder of Kinnear in September 2020, Zane Kilian was arrested shortly after the incident.
He told the court that during initial questioning, Kilian admitted that Modack instructed him to ping Kinnear.
Joubert said that after doing analysis on Kilian's cell phones, the investigation team discovered he was also pinging defence attorney, William Booth, before an attempt on his life in April 2020.
The trial continues.