Witness J said businessman Tumelo Nku was not a police informant but an active member of those who stole the Aeroton drugs.
Witness J has told the Madlanga Commission that businessman Tumelo Nku was allegedly part and parcel of a drug-trafficking network linked to the 2021 Aeroton cocaine bust and not a police informer.
The allegations emerged during in-camera testimony by the Hawks analyst, whose evidence was later released in a redacted transcript after a ruling by commission Chair Mbuyiseli Madlanga.
Drawing on cellphone records, encrypted messages, and movement data, Witness J told the commission that Nku's actions were inconsistent with those of an informer and instead pointed to direct involvement in the movement of a truck carrying cocaine from Durban to Gauteng.
“Tumelo Nku is not an informer as he alleges because if that was the case, the drugs were supposed to be seized in Durban,” the witness testified.
