NCC leader Fadiel Adams has been arrested, facing serious allegations of fraud and defeating the ends of justice.
Image: Photographer Ayanda Ndamane/ Independent Media
National Coloured Congress (NCC) members said they have successfully obtained a court order compelling the South African Police Service (SAPS) to show the warrant of arrest of their leader Fadiel Adams.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, NCC Secretary General Ebrahim Burton claimed that he presented the court order to SAPS and they refused to show him the warrant of arrest.
"But the attorney is on the way from the magistrates to serve the order on SAPS. I showed them the order, but they refused vehemently. I don't know why they are doing this," he said.
Adams was arrested in Cape Town after the Political Killings Task Team instructed him to present himself at his nearest police station in connection with charges related to fraud and defeating or obstructing the course of justice.
He handed himself over at Parliament Village on Tuesday.
National police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe confirmed that police were in possession of a J50 warrant for Adams’ arrest.
“The warrant relates to serious allegations that he interfered with ongoing investigations into the murder of the late ANC Youth League leader, Mr Sindiso Magaqa,” Mathe said.
She said investigators had found that Adams allegedly interfered with a convicted hitman at a sensitive and advanced stage of the probe.
Burton alleged that police indicated that they want to transfer Adams to KwaZulu-Natal where Magaqa was killed.
"We have our team of attorneys standing by in KZN if they do transfer him," he said.
Burton added that the party will be challenging the lawfulness of the warrant of arrest.
National Coloured Congress leader Fadiel Adams has been arrested in Cape Town, in connection with fraud and obstruction charges.
Image: Ayanda Ndamane / Independent Newspapers
On Sunday, IOL News reported that Adams had made a series of allegations against SAPS and KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, claiming members of the PKTT had raided a house he previously owned in Mitchell’s Plain.
Speaking at a media briefing at Parliament, Adams alleged that about 15 task team members stormed a house in Westridge on Saturday in search of him.
He claimed officers did not produce a search or arrest warrant and alleged they pointed rifles at a woman, assaulted a 12-year-old boy and traumatised a family while searching the wrong property.
Adams said he had sold the property a few weeks earlier and no longer lived there.
“With a budget of hundreds of millions of rand a year, this corrupt unit cannot even get an address right,” he said, adding that an innocent teacher had rifles pointed at her and her husband was forced to lie on the ground.
He said he had opened a case of intimidation against SAPS and alleged the raid was orchestrated by Mkhwanazi.
Police have not publicly responded to Adams’ allegations.
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