Simon Nare
Former Crime Intelligence boss Mulangi Mphego has denied any involvement in the disappearance of documents — linked to the Phala Phala investigation — from the Pretoria home of since deceased Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection, Lieutenant-General Sindile Mfazi.
The documents, linked to the investigation into the theft of foreign currency from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s private Phala Phala game farm, are alleged to have disappeared after Mfazi’s death in 2021, when his belongings were packed at his Pretoria home and delivered to his wife, Malindi, in the Eastern Cape.
Mphego has been at the centre of speculation in the Phala Phala investigation as former head of intelligence.
In a detailed statement issued this week, he said he had chosen to remain silent and not publicly engage on the matter even though he “felt hamstrung and trapped in a complex emotional knot between personal loyalty and professional ethics”.
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