Apr.29, 2010
Former police chief Jackie Selebi was on Thursday accused of laundering money, by using his official business trips to exchange cash into foreign exchange and back again.
He was under cross examination in his corruption and defeating the ends of justice trial, in the South Gauteng High Court.
The prosecution has shown that when Selebi travelled overseas in his capacity as chief of police, he would buy considerably more foreign exchange than he needed.
The ex-national commissioner would add some of his own money to the allowance given to him by the police.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel put it to him that he would then change the extra forex back to rand so that he could explain why he had an additional supply of money at hand.
Selebi furiously denied laundering money and insisted he would buy more dollars or Euros than he needed, in case of emergency.