"I always wore my Telkom overalls, as then no one queried what I was doing." ~ Briel
In his affidavit, Briel makes some devastating claims.
Briel worked for Associated Intelligence Networks (AIN) run by Warren Goldblatt, which has since morphed into Specialised Services Group, and says he received his instructions in the Investec case from former Recce Johann Rademeyer.
Briel says "Goldblatt told me that he had a big job to do in Cape Town. He mentioned that it was for Investec, and that there were bad people in their company that they wished to monitor."
He says he posed as a Telkom technician to install phone taps at Investec, as well as at private residences in Hout Bay, and a company premises near the Protea Hotel at the Waterfront.
In court papers, the Chaits say one of the places Briel tapped phones was the offices of their company, Fairweather Trust, which was developing the Victoria Junction Hotel in Cape Town at the time.
"Detailed information regarding the telephone tapping of (our) offices ... have enabled us to physically locate and recover equipment used in the tapping, which in due course will be provided in evidence," the Chaits say in papers.
The Chaits are furious - particularly because their property business was competing with Investec's own property business.
But Investec's Nobrega...described Briel's claim as an "overzealous expansion of the true facts in order to extort a settlement from Investec Bank." (more)
