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=Scorpions withheld footage, says Selebi=


 * //Cameras were also fitted on Agliotti's cars//


 * Alex Eliseev, The Star, Johannesburg, 11 January 2008**

The Scorpions had the home of Glenn Agliotti under surveillance on the night a gang of robbers struck there, but refused to release their footage, impairing the police investigation.

This dramatic claim is made in the founding affidavit by National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi, contained in his urgent application aimed at blocking the National Prosecuting Authority from prosecuting him.

Selebi says the Scorpions withheld the footage because they did not want to reveal their surveillance, the aim of which was to record him bribing Agliotti. This stance, he says, "frustrated the identification, arrest and prosecution of these robbers and rapists …"

Agliotti (51), who was under house arrest and under surveillance at the time, was robbed at his Bryanston, Sandton, mansion on March 5 last year.

The robbers tormented his family, indecently assaulted his 17-year-old daughter, pistol-whipped his ex-wife and fiancée, urinated on their victims and fled with goods worth more than R4,5-million. A security guard was severely beaten and, Selebi adds, a domestic worker was raped. Three men were arrested for the robbery and are on trial, while a fourth is apparently being sought.

Agliotti, who has made a dramatic new statement to the police, says cameras were installed in his home after December 2006 - when he was released on bail in connection with mining magnate Brett Kebble's murder.

The cameras were monitored by the Scorpions and included infra-red ones and trackers on all of Agliotti's cars.

These cameras, Agliotti says, are still there.

"The DSO (Scorpions) requested me to entice Selebi and his personal aid, Wessel Jenner, to my house and record all and any conversations. Their intention was to prove a case of bribery and corruption against Jackie Selebi," the affidavit states.

"After the armed robbery occurred, I requested that the DSO release (as evidence) the photograph footage captured on their cameras to the SAPS investigating team, to which they responded that they did not wish to do so as they did not want Selebi to know that my house was under surveillance."

His address, Agliotti claims, was made public by the media and the Scorpions, as was the fact that he paid R1-million bail (for both the Kebble and drug-smuggling cases).


 * From: http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4201016**

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