Basson named in Vlok indictment
2007-08-16 23:05
Johannesburg - Wouter Basson has been named as a co-conspirator in the indictment in the case against former law and order Minister Adriaan Vlok, the SABC reported on Thursday.
Vlok and senior members of the apartheid police force are facing attempted murder charges for the poisoning of former SA Council of Churches general secretary Frank Chikane.
Basson, head of the apartheid-era secret chemical and biological warfare programme has distanced himself from the crime.
He was found not guilty of Chikane's poisoning and other crimes in 2002.
"... during my trial it was the testimony of the witnesses for the State that I had no knowledge of this particular matter... and I really have no involvement or interest in the Chikane matter whatsoever," Basson told the public broadcaster.
The National Prosecuting Authority said it would not comment on Basson's issue at this stage, the SABC reported.
Vlok, ex-police chief Johann van der Merwe and three other former high-ranking policemen will appear in the Pretoria High Court on Friday for attempting to murder the current director-general in the president's office by poison in 1989.
It is widely speculated that the five might have entered into a plea-bargain with the State.
- SAPA