As we trudge through week four of the Jackie Selebi trial, it's hard not to lose just a little bit of interest in the intricacies of the sordid saga. Not least because the testimony has been… well… confusing.

And, because we know that you don't have time to read every long-winded court report, we've done it for you. Yip, we've sifted through accounts of witness testimony, courthouse altercations and financial audits, to provide you with a nifty little summary of the case thus far.

On page one: What the witnesses say…
On page two: The paper trail and crazy courtroom sideshows

Witness one: Glenn Agliotti

Alias: The Landlord
In the witness stand: Eleven days
Plea bargain: Immunity from prosecution for frank and honest testimony

He says…

• Claims he gave Selebi R30 000 to fund a dinner aimed at garnering votes ahead of an Interpol election.


• Claims that he bought shoes for Thabo Mbeki (size seven) at Aigner in Sandton.


• Claims that Selebi was aware of where his R30 000 slice of a $100 000 payment from Billy Rautenbach came from. He also claims that as Interpol head Selebi got information for Rautenbach on whether an international arrest warrant had been issued against him.

Selebi says that… none of the above is true.

Agliotti also claimed that…

• Brett Kebble gave him a $1-million (R12-13-million) fee to facilitate access to Jackie Selebi. He took the money, but denies that he upheld his part of the agreement.
• There were two occasions on which he asked Selebi for favours, which were not granted — a request to lift Billy Rautenbach's warrant for his arrest and to be placed on the shortlist for a SAPS tender for the company Xantium.
• The payments made to Jackie Selebi were innocent gestures of generosity.

Both Agliotti and Selebi say that: Bulelani Ngcuka was behind a political conspiracy to bring down Jackie Selebi.

Selebi did not deny that: he handed over two documents to Agliotti — a UK intelligence report detailing Agliotti's whereabouts, and an email written by former security man Paul O'Sullivan to the Scorpions on alleged criminal activities implicating Agliotti and himself. He claims that there was nothing wrong with handing over this information as the first piece was dated and the second, in the public domain.

Witness two: Dianne Muller

Alias: Agliotti's ex-fiancée
In the witness stand: Two days
Plea bargain: Immunity from prosecution for frank and honest testimony

She says…

• Agliotti began to think that he was above the law because of his friendship with Selebi.


• Agliotti bought Selebi's wife a Gucci handbag while on a trip to the UK and his sons clothing from the Fubu shop in Sandton.


• Selebi asked Agliotti to lend him R10 000 for his son's birthday party.


• That, at Agliotti's request, she packed R110 000 into a bank bag for Selebi at an office that Agliotti used in Midrand. She described handing the money to Selebi (although at the time he did not take it) and seeing him leaving the premises with the bag.

Selebi says that… none of the above is true.

Martin Flint

Alias: Father of the ex-fiancée
In the witness stand: One day
Plea bargain: Immunity from prosecution for frank and honest testimony

He says that…

• The company Spring Lights was sold to Brett Kebble and used by JCI to transfer large amounts of money to Glen Agliotti. Flint, who is Muller's father and also the financial director of her company, managed an account for Spring Lights.
• He cashed cheques on behalf of Glen Agliotti and wrote either 'JS', 'Chief' or 'c.o.p' on the counterfoils. At the time, he claims, he thought that JS stood for John Stratton (Kebble's business associate) and that 'c.o.p' referred to a former policeman Charles Bezuidenhout (however, he later realised that this was not possible as the dates did not correlate).
• According to the auditor from KPMG, seven cash cheques — marked JS, Chief or c.o.p on the counterfoils — were taken from the Spring Lights account between June 2004 and September 2005, with values ranging from R10 000 to R200 000.

On page two: a brief look at Jackie Selebi's bank accounts and all the crazy courtroom sideshows...

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