By Johnathan Paoli
SAPS National Intervention Unit (NIU) officer Warrant Officer Steve Phakula has alleged that Gauteng Crime Intelligence head Major-General Feroz Khan “laughed” when confronted with rumours that a massive cocaine shipment seized during the 2021 Aeroton drug bust belonged to him.
Appearing before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday, Phakula detailed his interactions with Khan following the drug bust.
“Major-General Khan asked me who the drugs belonged to and I told him that people say they belong to him and he laughed,” Phakula said.
The commission previously heard how 715kg of cocaine, worth an estimated R280 million, was seized during a raid at a Scania warehouse in Aeroton, south of Johannesburg.
It also heard that about 137kg later vanished and that the crime scene was severely contaminated, with the drugs transported on an open bakkie.
Phakula testified that Crime Information Management and Analysis Centre head Warrant Officer
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