Shibiri pressed on why he took loan from ‘Cat’ despite having money

Retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga has challenged suspended organised crime head Major-General Richard Shibiri’s assertion that he needed the R70.000 loan from alleged cartel member Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala.
Shibiri has testified that Matlala loaned him R70.000 to fix his son’s vehicle.
Bank statements presented before the Madlanga Commission show that Shibiri and his son would be left with a combined R50.000 if they paid for the car repairs themselves.
Madlanga put it to Shibiri that he did not need the loan from Matlala because he already had the money in his account.
“So you chose the convenience, convenience in quotation marks, of borrowing money from a person that you knew at the time, and you admitted this yesterday when my colleagues engaged you, a person that you knew at the time, to be alleged, to be seriously implicated in criminality. So you chose the convenience, instead of using in excess of R50,000 that you had, or that was available to you,” adds Madlanga.
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