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In the name of the law: Chats suggest Khan abused office to leverage SAPS tenders

Evidence leaders at the Mandlanga Commission continued on Monday to plough through chats between senior Crime Intelligence officer Feroz Khan and car spares shop owner Ismail Vally about various lucrative SAPS tenders. While Major General Feroz Khan remained hospitalised after being shot in the abdomen a week ago, evidence leader advocate Adila Hassim resumed proceedings, […] The post In the name of the law: Chats suggest Khan abused office to leverage SAPS tenders appeared first on The Namibian

The Namibian7 Jul 2026, 05:45 am
In the name of the law: Chats suggest Khan abused office to leverage SAPS tenders

Evidence leaders at the Mandlanga Commission continued on Monday to plough through chats between senior Crime Intelligence officer Feroz Khan and car spares shop owner Ismail Vally about various lucrative SAPS tenders.

While Major General Feroz Khan remained hospitalised after being shot in the abdomen a week ago, evidence leader advocate Adila Hassim resumed proceedings, reading into the record a series of deeply incriminating interactions between the top cop and auto spare parts businessman Ismail Vally.

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While often referring to themselves as “bru” or “bro”, Hassim, however, preferred not to read out the string of crude expletives the two men used to refer to various people in their sights.

Business as usual

Buried in the series of WhatsApps between Vally and Khan and released on Monday is one dated 12 July 2021 when the top cop provided a list of “current no-go zones” related to violence sparked by former president Jacob Zuma’s excursion to the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal that very day.

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Originally published by The Namibian on 7 Jul 2026, 05:45 am. View original article
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