By Johnathan Paoli
The Madlanga Commission heard shocking testimony on Monday from a police investigator, known only as Witness A, who drew direct links between the 2024 murder of Q-Tech engineer Armand Swart, police corruption and a multimillion-rand Transnet tender fraud scheme.
Testifying from a secure, undisclosed location with his identity withheld for safety reasons, Witness A traced the investigation into Swart’s killing, a case that has exposed connections between organised crime and law enforcement.
Swart, a 37-year-old engineer and father of two, was gunned down outside his workplace in Vereeniging in April last year, shot 23 times in what police now believe was a case of mistaken identity.
Witness A testified that police believe the whistleblower targeted for execution was another employee at the firm, but that Swart was murdered instead after being mistaken for the intended target.
“Swart was not the whistleblower they were targeting. The hitmen were
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