By Johnathan Paoli
Deliberate delays and false kidnapping allegations were used to derail the investigation into the murder of engineer Armand Swart, according to new testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday.
Witness B, a veteran investigator in the Serious and Violent Crimes Unit now under police protection, told the commission that the probe into Swart’s April 2024 assassination was systematically sabotaged through tampered forensic evidence and a fabricated kidnapping complaint aimed at discrediting her team.
She said the interference appeared designed to protect powerful individuals linked to a network of state corruption, organised crime, and political influence that has emerged during the ongoing inquiry.
“Maybe now, in totality of all the information I’ve gathered, it starts to make me feel as if some of the things were deliberate, to delay the investigation,” Witness B testified.
Her testimony follows two days of evidence by Witness A, her colleague,
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