Am ex rugby player was arrested in Springs in connection with murder of SAPS colonel Charl Kinnear. Information is starting to filter out that the command to assassinate Colonel Charl Kinnear, a top detective attached to the anti gang unit in Cape Town, came from Gauteng. At the time of his murder Colonel Kinnear was investigating a firearm licence smuggling network involving gang figures both in Cape Town and Gauteng, serving high ranking police officers and former police officers.
Colonel Kinnear also investigated the participation of two serving police brigadiers in the smuggling network. He was about to arrest them this week but his assassination prevented that.
Colonel Kinnear was in Gauteng in the week before his death in the course of his investigation. A retired Police colonel was also a person of interest in Colonel Kinnear’s investigation.
In the meantime the Hawks have arrested a 39 year old former rugby player in Springs in connection with Colonel Kinnear’s murder. He was the person who did the cellphone tracking that enabled the assassins to know exactly where the colonel was. He will appear in the Bishop Lavis magistrates court on Friday 25 September 2020, in connection with the murder.
Col Kinnear’s investigation into the firearm licence smuggling syndicate included the arrest and court appearance in Kempton Park of Nafiz Modack, a protection racket gang boss in Cape Town and 20 others, including police members and ex police members in June.
Kinnear, according to all reports a brilliant and dedicated detective, was assassinated in front of his son at his house in Bishop Lavis last Friday. It was established that somebody tracked his phone for months, including the whole day of his murder.
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