Johannesburg — GLENN Agliotti, a convicted drug dealer who is also accused of murdering mining magnate Brett Kebble, yesterday supported claims that former police commissioner Jackie Selebi made against former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka and Vusi Pikoli.

In his plea explanation in the South Gauteng High Court on Monday, Selebi claimed he had obtained information that Ngcuka had approached former Hyundai boss Billy Rautenbach's attorney and tried to extort a bribe from him .

Selebi also said Pikoli obtained a "material gratification" from Kebble and Johannesburg Consolidated Investments in an improper way via his wife, Nozuko Majola-Pikoli.

Selebi is on trial on three counts of corruption and one of defeating the administration of justice. The state claims he received payments from Kebble, Agliotti and Rautenbach in exchange for protection and favours.

Selebi, who has pleaded not guilty, has claimed that the National Prosecuting Authority approached several people and offered them indemnity for crimes such as murder, fraud and drug trafficking in exchange for false statements implicating him.

During cross-examination yesterday, Agliotti said he informed Selebi about the letter Ngcuka had sent to Rautenbach's attorney. In a statement that Agliotti made to the prosecution in November 2007, he mentioned that he furnished Selebi with the letter Ngcuka wrote to Rautenbach's lawyer. Agliotti obtained this letter from Rautenbach, who wanted Selebi to help him with his arrest warrant on tax evasion charges.

Agliotti's statement said Selebi was more interested in the letter than helping Rautenbach with his arrest warrant.

On Pikoli, Agliotti said Majola- Pikoli held shares in Vulisango, a black economic empowerment company that was one of the empowerment companies, along with Jaganda, that Kebble used to allocate shares to individuals.

Pikoli's lawyer Aslam Moosajee said on Monday Majola-Pikoli owned 2% of the shares in Vulisango, after a close friend invited her to take up a shareholding.

Agliotti said he raised his knowledge of the share allocation situation with Selebi and agreed with Selebi's advocate Jaap Cilliers SC that Majola-Pikoli obtained these shares -- worth millions -- for free.

Agliotti also said he was not involved in planning the murder of Kebble. He agreed with Cilliers that although he was not involved in carrying out the murder, he was the only one being prosecuted for it.

Cilliers said even more strange was the fact that the three people who were in the car used on the night Kebble was killed in 2005 had all received indemnities from the state.

"It goes further, the man who arranged this execution and who paid them (Clinton Nassif) ... also obtained (indemnity) to testify against Agliotti."

The trial continues.