De Wet Potgieter

Former Teazers boss Lolly Jackson took a lot of secrets with him to the grave.

After he was riddled with bullets in May 2010, his incriminating legacy links local gangland bosses to public figures and international crime syndicates worldwide.

As the bodies pile up, sources close to mob enforcers predict more deaths, The New Age was told on Thursday.

While the body count following the killing of Mark Andrews, 36, in Alberton on Tuesday has been offcialy put at 10, well-placed sources said there are “more corpses out there”.

At the centre of the eerie underworld tension were two “trusted” Jackson employees – a father and son team – who died within weeks of each other in similar “car crashes” on the East Rand, just days before Jackson’s violent death at a friend’s house in Kempton Park.

The New Age was told reliably that the father and son were instructed by Jackson to move incriminating evidence “out of harm’s way” to a safe hiding place. This happened after the king of sleaze transferred millions of rands into the trust account of his lawyer, Ian Jordaan, who was found charred on top of a bakkie near Krugersdorp last week.

Jackson’s request to hide documents came just two days before the father died in a car crash when he was forced off a road on the East Rand. The son died in a similar “car accident” three weeks later, said the source.

In another suspicious death, a Serbian strongman “committed suicide” on the disused old Linksfield golf course in Edenvale late in 2010. His body was found slumped against a tree opposite a nursery with his car parked close by. Although he was right handed, a firearm was found in his left hand, and he had a bullet through his heart.

According to sources, Jackson’s group of strip joints was a minor part of his crime dabbling which included prostitution, human trafficking, money laundering and drug smuggling.

He allegedly colluded with numerous organised rings inside South Africa with links to syndicates in Australia, Cyprus, Greece, eastern Europe and the UK.

He is said to have made enemies in the local Greek community by stealing million of rands he was supposed to launder to Greece and Cyprus.

It is alleged that deaths of Jordaan and Andrews, former partner in Teazers in Cresta, may have been a well orchestrated scheme by crime bosses to put police off the track.

Sources say there is slim hope that police will crack the series of murders soon, citing the infiltration of crime intelligence by foreign moles and apparent in-fighting within the police. An intelligence source claims that the police’s crime intelligence is too busy spying on each other.

dewetp@thenewage.co.za

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