By Johnathan Paoli
A suspended police sergeant told Parliament’s ad hoc committee on Friday that KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi was present when he and a co-accused were allegedly tortured during an investigation into the 2024 kidnapping of businessman Zakariyya Desai.
Samkeliso Honest Mlotshwa, of the Border Policing Unit, who was stationed at the Lebombo border post, said he had never met Desai and denied any involvement in the kidnapping.
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“I don’t know Mr Zakariyya Desai. What I know is that he is a businessman from Stanger who was kidnapped on 10 September 2024. My involvement in this matter, I was alleged to be one of the suspects who kidnapped Mr Zakariyya Desai,” he said.
Mlotshwa said he was arrested on 23 November 2024 in Maputo, Mozambique, while on a business trip repatriating the remains
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