Nathi Mthethwa ‘benefitted from irregular secret service upgrades'

This was revealed by former KwaZulu-Natal Hawks boss Johan Booysen at the commission of inquiry into state capture on Thursday. 

He said an investigation into the looting of the secret service account led them to information regarding the fence build around Mthethwa's house. 

Booysen said Mthethwa was entitled to R100 000 in security upgrades, but the funds were not supposed to come from the secret service. 

"It's my understanding that the funds should have come from an open account which is either the parliamentary or the police account through the Department of Public Works. not from the secret account.”

The excess should have been paid by Mthethwa, but Booysen says the current arts and culture minister later justified it. 

"During a media interview, the minister attempted to justify the building of a fence around his house, which I don't have a problem with, but now he knows that the money came from the wrong funds. I don't know if any attempts were made to repay the funds."

Booysen says the investigation also led to allegations that former head of the police crime intelligence, Richard Mdluli, and others were involved in looting the secret service account. 

He was informed during the investigation that former police commissioner Ria Phiyega instructed the investigator in the case to hand over the dockets, essentially instructing him to stop the investigation. 

When they later requested the dockets at the request of Hawks boss c, the documents and witness statements were missing.