Major-General Shadrack Sibiya claims he was fired as the Gauteng Hawks commissioner not because of illegal renditions but because he arrested Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli.

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Sibiya’s advocate, Paul Kennedy, yesterday told the Safety and Security Sectoral Bargaining Council in Pretoria: “This was political. There are sinister motives behind this. It is about Sibiya’s arrest of Mdluli.”

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Kennedy said Sibiya was a “scapegoat”.

Sibiya arrested Mdluli in connection with the 1999 murder of Oupa Ramogibe, the husband of a former girlfriend of Mdluli.

Kennedy said no evidence had been produced to show that Sibiya authorised the arrests of the Zimbabweans .

“Despite witnesses testifying that Sibiya was never involved, he was found guilty.”