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On  April 9th, 2007 around 19:00 I had returned from celebrating my Greek Orthodox Easter and was joined by some Greek friends as well as Director Booysen and his girlfriend Adele Sonnekus (also a police captain in his office), as well as a civilian friend of mine, Arthur Georgiadis. While at my home, a call come…

On 4/06/2006 Director Johan Booysen visited me at my home. He was drinking heavily that day and a call came through involving a multiple victims shooting, in close proximity to my home. I was asked by Booysen to accompany him to the crime scene with his own car, which I refused as he was clearly…

In 2006, I was collected by members of the unit from my store, and we drove around West Street in downtown Durban  in a silver BMW unmarked police vehicle. The members’ names were Paul “Mossie” Mostert, Willie Olivier and Eugene van Tonder (we used to call him via his Afrikaans nickname, WP, which sounded to…

After reporting the torture of the African suspect to my commanding officer, Director Booysen, I started to distance myself from Cato Manor operations. I concentrated on what I was doing best, investigating IT stolen equipment through my computer store. On December 2005, I managed to crack one of my biggest cases yet, by tracing a…

By 2004 I had spent 3 years with the unit and was frequently investigating, through my computer business, stolen IT equipment that arrived for servicing at my store. This was a standard practice as I developed various techniques in order to recover stolen IT equipment and link them to criminal cases. As I was a…

Being under the protection of a unit with a notorious reputation had its advantages. As an example, we were able to get out of frequent speeding fines with the intervention of Booysen. People and organizations respected and feared us. We were enjoying VIP treatment in nightclubs, casinos, and discount or free meals at luxury restaurants…

My success as a reservist in dealing with crime was unprecedented. Through my IT investigations, via my computer business, I managed to arrest multiple criminals, recover stolen property, guns and vehicles worth millions and as a result of my dedication to fighting crime, I was promoted to R/sergeant. I obtained permission by Director Booysen to…

I started to investigate, various night clubs, involved in drug trafficking. To my surprise, a few of the club owners were South African Greeks, that I grew up with after my immigration to SA. After I reported my findings, I ended up being borrowed by Organised Crime’s Drug division and took part in various undercover…

A reporter from Daily News contacted me and asked me about the armed robbery at my store. I handed him a copy of the surveillance video as he was writing a story about the incident. The next day I received a call from Booysen. He was clearly upset, derailed, and threatening me that I would…

At 0930 an armed robbery (video) took place at my new store at 480 Smith Street, Durban. I was held up at gunpoint and forced with my staff into a room in the back of the store. The robbers held us there and my own firearm was taken from me by one of the robbers….