Andy Duffy
The police probe into the head of the Cape Town-based presidential investigations task unit has so far found evidence on three counts of criminal activity.
A representative for National Police Commissioner George Fivaz says several other allegations against director Andre Lincoln are also being investigated, but that the details remain sub judice.
Western Cape serious violent crime division head Leonard Knipe, instructed by Fivaz to investigate the unit, handed in his findings on three criminal cases to Western Cape Attorney General Frank Kahn earlier this month.
The nature of Knipe’s findings is unclear. Knipe, Kahn and Lincoln all refuse to comment. Lincoln’s unit believes the three cases are relatively minor offences, including drunk driving and assault.
But police insiders say the allegations against Lincoln include fraud, stemming from a trip Lincoln undertook to Angola earlier this year for businessman Vito Palazzolo.
Lincoln is a former member of the African National Congress’s department of intelligence and security.