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Agliotti's arrest surprises Roger Kebble
Allan Seccombe
Posted: Thu, 16 Nov 2006

[miningmx.com] -- ROGER KEBBLE, the father of slain mining boss Brett Kebble, said he was surprised to hear Glenn Agliotti, someone he knew well, has been arrested for the murder of his son in September last year.

The National Prosecuting Authority’s elite Scorpions unit are widely reported to have arrested Agliotti who contracted his services to JCI, a company headed by Brett Kebble. Agliotti is expected to appear in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court on Thursday afternoon.

“I’m very surprised to hear that Glenn was arrested for that,” Kebble told Miningmx from London.
I’m very surprised
“The guy was quite close to Brett. It’s not the kind of thing I’d think he’d be involved in,” he said, adding he’d received a message from South Africa about the arrest earlier on Thursday.

Brett Kebble was shot dead in his Mercedes Benz on the night of 28 September 2005. He had in August been deposed as chief executive of Western Areas, JCI and Randgold & Exploration. Subsequent forensic audits have uncovered fraud worth billions of rands at the companies linked to Brett Kebble.

Roger Kebble said he’d got to know Agliotti well enough through his friendship with Brett to have dinner together. “I really got to know him quite well.”

Roger Kebble said he’d been close to the police during the investigation into his son’s death so Agliotti’s arrest by the Scorpions, which is separate from the police service, was completely unexpected. The Scorpions are formally known as the Directorate of Special Operations.

Kebble gave a wide-ranging interview to Miningmx in December last year, which touched on Brett’s death, something he saw as the one glaring failure in his career that started in 1959.
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Brett, a lawyer, was brought into the mining industry by his father in 1994, but the relationship was never easy because of the different way father and son viewed the future of their company JCI.

“I don’t know if it’s all been worth it when you consider Brett’s death. I don’t know why Brett was killed, but that part is a failure,” Kebble said last year.

“I would have preferred to have a better working relationship with him regarding all the opportunities that existed. As a mentor and as a father, I failed to create a relationship that would have been a combined solid effort in one direction.”

Father and son clashed over the direction their mining company JCI was to take, with Brett wanting it to be a mining finance provider, which made Roger uncomfortable.

“Brett had an intellect that was foreign to me. He was the right sort of person to create change. He could think on a different plane. My emphasis was always to get into a bloody mine and make it work.”