Retired top cop Vearey denies Modack’s claims he took bribes from alleged crime bosses

CAPE TOWN – Retired top police officer Major General Jeremy Vearey has denied allegations that he accepted bribes from alleged underworld figures.

The allegations were made by alleged underworld gang boss Nafiz Modack in a statement he made to police in 2018.

Modack and fourteen co-defendants are on trial for several crimes, including the murder of Vearey’s colleague, Lt. Charl Kinnear, outside his home for Bishop Lavis in 2020.

Vearey took the stand Tuesday to testify about the 25 counts of corruption facing Modack.

It is the state’s case that Modack tried to bribe Vearey and Kinnear to return six firearms confiscated from his home in 2017.

Modack claims he paid more than R3 million to Vearey and Kinnear through an intermediary to prove they were corrupt.

In a statement, Modack claims Vearey also took bribes from other alleged underworld figures, including Jerome “Donkie” Booysen, Mark Lifman and Ralph Stanfield.

Vearey denied this, saying at the time that Booysen, Lifman and Stanfield were actually his targets.

The process continues.