The corruption case against an underworld kingpin, his 60-year-old mother and a disgraced former police station commander was postponed in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Tuesday.
Nafiz Modack, 37, his mother Ruwaida and former cop Kolindhren Govender made a quick appearance and the matter was postponed to allow Govender’s new lawyer to become accustomed to the case.
The matter is related to alleged corrupt deals in which Govender received payment, allegedly in excess of R148 900, dating back to November 2011.
Modack and his mom were arrested in May and released on R5000 bail each.
Govender is facing 51 counts under the Prevention and Combating and Corrupt Activities Act and one for contravening the SAPS Act.
The other accused on the charge sheets are AMG Auto and Peuxon Properties represented by Modack.
In papers, the State alleges that Govender intervened during December 2012 with the police recovery of a stolen WesBank financed Mercedez-Benz discovered in the possession of Nazeem Siaat, a business associate of Modack.
It is further alleged that Govender also forbade another officer to hand over a copy of a statement relating to the stolen Mercedez-Benz, causing the vehicle not to be seized.
Govender is serving a four-year sentence in Malmesbury Prison.
He was convicted of corruption in a matter alongside former Western Cape Police Commissioner Arno Lamoer, who was sentenced to an effective six years in jail, while Brigadier Darius van der Ross was slapped with a two-year sentence.
Modack alleges the charges are just part of a ploy to keep him in court and are all false.
The matter is back in court on 6 September.