By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The suspended member of Parliament (MP) Fadiel Adams’ has threatened legal action against the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) Advocate Drushanta Ramsamy for recording their entire two-and-a-half-hour conversation without seeking or obtaining his permission.
Adams met with IDAC officials in January 2025.
Ramsamy has since shared a two-hour recording of that meeting with the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry after Adams claimed she wasn’t forthcoming in her testimony about discrepancies in his reports.
“I am actually asking the commission that after consulting with my attorneys last night we will be reporting Ms. Ramsamy to the LPC and also be laying criminal charges against her. The request from my side is that we don’t not play the recording because we will be asking for it lawfully and will be pursuing it,” Adams said.
Adams said his Section 27 referral to the IDAC may have been altered and that his signature on the document could have been forged.
He made the claims while responding to questions from the commissioners on Friday, as commission continued to scrutinise the validity and purpose of the controversial referral.
He testified that some of the issues raised in the original referral appear to have been omitted from the document presented to the commission.
Although Adams conceded that his memory is not always reliable, he remained adamant that the referral before the commission is not the same document he submitted.
The controversial referral triggered an investigation into several senior Crime Intelligence officials, including its head, General Dumisani Khumalo, Crime Intelligence CFO, Major-General Philani Lushaba, and Brigadier, Dineo Mokwele.
The three officials were charged with corruption and fraud relating to Mokwele’s appointment. The charges have since been withdrawn.
Adams, however, acknowledged that developments may have taken place behind the scenes without his knowledge during the course of the investigation.
Meanwhile, KwaZulu-Natal Hawks officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Deenadayalan Govender, said, he believes he was unfairly used by IPID Deputy Director for Investigations, Len John, in an alleged attempt to discredit KZN Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.
Govender was the second witness to take the stand before the commission on Friday.
The commission heard allegations that Govender was commissioned to kill tow-truck operator, Bevan Loftus, who was gunned down on 1 April 2023, and that he received kickbacks linked to the murder.