JOHANNESBURG – Die bom wat in Money Point in Bedfordview ontplof het, was gelaai met skrapnel en is ontwerp om te verwoes – maar was dalk nie vir Radovan Krejcir bedoel nie.

Twee van Krejcir se kamerade is dood, drie kritiek beseer en nog twee lig beseer toe ’n bom gelaai met skrootmetaal eergister omstreeks 17:20 by Money Point ontplof het. Dié onderneming in Bradfordstraat is ’n hoëklas-pandjieswinkel en leen ook kontant uit.

Na verneem word, was Ronnie Vuma, een van die oorledenes, moontlik die teiken omdat ’n transaksie met ’n onbekende derde party skeefgeloop het.

Independent organised crime investigator Chad Thomas, from IRS Forensic Investigations, said Krejcir needed to be taken into protective custody if Tuesday night’s explosion was not staged, "until such time as his refugee status is either confirmed or he gets deported to the Czech Republic".

BEDFORDVIEW – Eyewitness News understands the Audi Q7 Sam Issa was shot and killed in on Saturday morning was spotted outside Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir’s gold exchange shop, Moneypoint, less than 10 hours before.

Issa, who was also known as ‘Cripple Sam’ and ‘Black Sam’, was shot dead by a gunman who pulled up next to him at a traffic light near the Bedford Centre in the early hours of the morning.

It’s believed an AK47 was used and more than 30 empty bullet cartridges were found on the scene.

It’s understood Krejcir and Issa had a fall out a few weeks before the shooting, but Krejcir has strongly denied being associated with the Lebanese national.

While Krejcir has claimed he only knew Issa from around the neighbourhood, describing him as a "strange man," Issa’s friends have described him as a "party animal."

Johannesburg - Independent forensic investigators have said the latest murder of an associate of Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir appeared to have been a hit staged as a robbery gone wrong.

One of the investigators said he suspected that these murders were being ordered by Krejcir’s enemies as a warning.

Veselin Laganin was shot dead in his Bedfordview home in the early hours of Saturday during a robbery, police spokesman Brigadier Neville Malila said.

JOHANNESBURG – Police have confirmed that it was 54-year-old Veselin "Vescko" Laganin who was shot and killed at his Bedfordview home in the early hours of Saturday morning.

According to police spokesperson, Brigadier Neville Malila, the shooting took place during an alleged housebreaking robbery at Laganin's complex.

Two men had entered the residence, and shots were fired by the assailants. Malila confirmed that jewelry and cellphones had been stolen.

He also reported the police had recovered firearms outside the property.

Major General Simon Mapyane was arrested for submitting fraudulent travel claims in May.

This was revealed yesterday in a statement from the police head that has experienced “a huge sense of disappointment” for the second time this year. The first was Gauteng’s hired and fired intended police Commissioner Mondli Zuma. He was appointed to the post with a pending criminal case from 2008 for drunken driving (0.65 mg per 1,000ml) hanging over his head.

THE POLICE in Gauteng said yesterday they had intensified the investigation into the killing of Bassam Issa, who was gunned down in Bedfordview on Saturday.

Spokesman Brigadier Neville Malila said police had received information from members of the public, including possible witnesses.

Issa had stopped at a traffic light in his car, an Audi Q7, when a white Ford Ranger approached and its occupants shot at him with AK-47 and R5 rifles, said Malila. More than 30 spent rounds were found on the scene.

"Various items, including a .38 revolver, 9mm rounds and a silencer, were found in the victim's vehicle as well as four cellphones," said Malila.

"The motive for the killings is unknown at this stage and a case of murder is being investigated by a provincial multidisciplinary team."

Johannesburg - The now defunct Department of Public Transport, Roads and Works leased a building in Doornfontein, Joburg, in 2008 for three times what it was paying a previous landlord.

The department's employees have described the building as filthy.

Johannesburg - The self-confessed triggerman in Brett Kebble's murder, notorious underworld figure Mikey Schultz, has been named in the Dave Sheer Guns scandal.

Earlier this year, The Star revealed that the arms trader, the biggest in South Africa and Africa, was being investigated by numerous state departments amid allegations of police bribery.

ALL Norwood police sector vehicles will now be connected, all thanks to IRS Forensics which donated five cellphones and car chargers to the Norwood Community Policing Forum chairperson Duncan Barker.