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	Interpol boss Jackie Selebi to be charged with corruption London, 12.01.2008 By Muchena Zigomo in Pretoria January 12, 2008 08:02am SOUTH Africa's prosecuting authority will charge Jackie Selebi, national police chief and head of Interpol, with corruption, a spokesman said. "A decision has been made, he will be charged with corruption and defeating the ends of justice," Tlali Tlali, spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), told Reuters. Selebi, an ally of President Thabo Mbeki and president of the international police organisation Interpol, has denied any wrongdoing. His legal team went to court today in a bid to prevent his prosecution, but the judge rejected the application. The decision to charge Selebi is likely to raise the political temperature in South Africa, where President Mbeki and his rival Jacob Zuma - new leader of the ruling ANC - are locked in a power struggle that has raised investors' fears of political instability. The NPA charged Zuma with corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering less than two weeks after he won the party leadership from Mr Mbeki last month, fuelling allegations it had been used as a political weapon. A copy of Selebi's indictment, made available to the media by the NPA, covers a range of charges that include receiving payments from his friend Glenn Agliotti, a convicted drug smuggler accused of playing a role in the 2005 murder of a South African mining magnate. Court papers filed by the NPA before the decision to charge Selebi was made public said he faced no prospect of imminent arrest and that arrangements over a court date would be reached with the police chief's lawyer. Mokotedi Mpshe, the NPA's acting director, said "I don't think it is going to be that long" before Selebi is charged. Gerrie Nel, who is leading the investigation into Selebi, was arrested by police on graft charges on Tuesday night. Nel, a senior official of the Scorpions, an elite FBI-style NPA unit, has been released on bail and is due in court on Monday. The charges against Nel include fraud and "defeating the ends of justice". The Selebi indictment says Agliotti gave Selebi money on several occasions, including 30,000 rand ($A4915) for a dinner in Paris to celebrate his appointment as Interpol president. "The 'relationship' became a generally corrupt relationship..." said the 23-page indictment. Selebi's friendship with Agliotti has put him under the spotlight as South Africans face one of the world's worst rates of violent crime. Murders, rapes and carjackings have put Selebi's police force under mounting pressure to make the streets safe before South Africa hosts the soccer World Cup in 2010. Criminals frequently blow up and rob ATM machines. In the period 2000 to 2005 Selebi received at least 1.2 million rand ($A200,000) from Agliotti and his associates, and Agliotti bought clothes for Selebi, his wife and sons, the indictment said. In a handwritten statement to the NPA, Agliotti said: "I bought his wife and girlfriend handbags from Gucci in London and Sandton (affluent Johannesburg district) and Louis Vuitton in Sandton." odkaz na stránku Address : Euro-Brew Ltd., Hlboká 22, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia Tel. : +421 33 53 418 53, Fax : +421 33 53 418 52, E-mail : info@eurobrew.sk

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