Selebi a liar, says Agliotti’s ex

SANDRA LIEBERUM

JOHANNESBURG - Former National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s denial that Glenn Agliotti bought clothing for the two Selebi children at Fubu in Sandton was a “lie”.

Dianne Muller’s voice choked with emotion as she told the South Gauteng High Court she had witnessed the spree and had also been present in London when Agliotti purchased a Gucci handbag for Jackie Selebi’s wife, Anne.

Muller remained unshaken during cross examination yesterday by Selebi’s lead advocate, Jaap Cilliers SC.

She has denied dovetailing her evidence to bolster the State’s case that Selebi received cash and gifts totaling R1,2 million from Agliotti and others.

Tracing the paper trail of money from Brett Kebble through the Spring Lights account to Muller’s company account and to the account of Agliotti’s first wife, Cillers stated that the “money flew out of the Spring Lights account” into other accounts and suggested that although Agliotti had remarried there appeared to be something still binding them. “My suspicion is that it is money,” added Cilliers.

Muller denied any cover up but admitted that Agliotti treated the Kebble money in the Spring Lights account “as his own”.

Evidence by Agliotti was that much of the money he claims he handed to Selebi came from Kebble money .

He claimed he had asked a $1,2 million consulting fee for introducing Selebi to slain mining magnate, Brett Kebble and John Stratton.

Comparing Agliotti’s evidence and Muller’s testimony of how she saw Selebi leave her company offices with a bank bag similar to one into which she had counted R110 000 for Agliotti, Muller said Agliotti handled large amounts of money on a daily basis so could have confused a large envelope and a bank bag.

She again categorically denied trying “to minimalise the difference” between her version and Agliotti’s version.

South Africa’s former police chief, through his advocate, has denied receiving R110 000 or R120 000 from Agliotti to take the Selebi family on holiday.