Captain Mark McLean

Captain Mark McLean states he was part of a team assigned in May 2020 to investigate state-owned enterprises and entities as part of a duty arrangement between IDAC and DPCI.

“In May of 2020, I was part of a team placed at the Investigating Directorate, the ID, of the National Prosecuting Authority, also commonly known as IDAC, as part of a duty arrangement between IDAC and the DPCI, where we were assigned to conduct investigations relating to inter-alia state-owned enterprises or state-owned entities.”

Captain McLean confirms involvement in investigations starting around March 2011 into the murder of Oupa Ramogibe in Vosloorus, related to General Mdluli.

“In 2011, I think it was March, it was our public holiday, we were informed to form part of a team coming up to Gauteng to investigate a murder of Oupa Ramogibe in Vosloorus against General Mdluli at the time.”

Captain McLean was part of a team including Colonel Roelofse, Colonel Viljoen, and Sergeant Cathy Williams working on the 2011 Vosloorus murder investigation.

“It was myself, Colonel Roelofse, Colonel Viljoen, Piet Viljoen, and Cathy Williams, Sergeant Cathy Williams.”

The Secret Service Account abuse was known to investigators by 2011, but it was not part of the initial murder investigation in 2011; information was provided later by Crime Intelligence officials to the investigation team.

“Not right in the beginning, Commissioners. Like I said, as things progressed, because you are dealing with a murder of the then Divisional Commissioner of Crime Intelligence, the officials in Crime Intelligence, you get to know them and then they will approach you with information. And that is exactly what transpired here.”

In 2011, the abuse of the Secret Service Account and related appointments were known issues that should have been stopped then, but were not.

“Like I said, the abuse of the Secret Service Account, the appointments, all of that was known to us in 2011.”

In 2018, General Jacobs informed Captain McLean and retired Colonel Roelofse about an incident involving Major General Feroz Khan and Advocate Andrea Johnson.

“We were approached by, actually, General Jacobs, who informed us about the Colonel, who had information regarding an incident that took place in 2018 relating to Major General Khan and Advocate Johnson.”

In May 2020 Colonel Roe Loofse was part of a team with Captain Mark McLean investigating crime intelligence matters within the Investigation Directorate of the National Prosecuting Authority (IDAC).

“In May 2020, I was part of a team... The team just consisted of me and Captain McLean. Captain Mark McLean, yes, relating to this matter. The team placed at IDAC with more members of the DPCI, but in terms of this matter and CI, Crime Intelligence Investigation, it was just me and Captain McLean and myself. It was part of a team placed at the Investigative Directorate of the National Prosecuting Authority, or now known as IDAC...”

In May 2022, in Crime Intelligence, a disclosure was made to Colonel Roe Loofse and Captain Mark McLean by a colonel and lieutenant colonel about an incident in 2018 involving Andrea Johnson and General Feroz Khan, deemed protected under the Protection Disclosure Act.

“Sometime in May 2022, a Colonel who was a captain at the time of the incident in 018, and a lieutenant Colonel when she approached us in 2022, in Crime Intelligence, approached Captain Mark McLean and me to make a disclosure which I deemed to be in terms of the Protection Disclosure Act of 26 of 2000. She informed us that in 2018, she shared an office with General Khan, who had been appointed as the Head of Operational Intelligence Support in September 2017...”