Top cop Jeremy Vearey, implicated in criminal activities, says coached witnesses were used to manufacture accusations.
|||Cape Town - Senior policeman Jeremy Vearey, named in allegations implicating him in crime which were forwarded to the authorities by Community Safety MEC Dan Plato, says coached witnesses were used to manufacture the accusations.
He also said an “implied ‘lie’” would soon be revealed that would expose Plato.
Plato refused to comment.
On Tuesday Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Rodney de Kock announced that he would not call for further action into allegations, forwarded to authorities by Plato, linking “a senior politician and a SAPS officer” to criminal activities.
De Kock said the witness behind the allegations “lacked credibility”.
Vearey, provincial ANC chairman Marius Fransman and ANC MPL Max Ozinsky were named in allegations Plato had forwarded.
On Wednesday in a lengthy Facebook post, Vearey said De Kock’s decision “reinforces credibility in our DPP’s ability to avoid politically engineered attempts to frame and character assassinate senior police officers and politicians with manufactured lies of coached ‘witnesses’.
“However, the other implied ‘lie’ that Plato never met the ‘witness’ in question and only received the affidavit in the post, will soon be exposed.”
caryn.dolley@inl.co.za
Cape Times
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