Advocate Willem Heath yesterday strongly denied rumours that his principals, Roger and Brett Kebble, had abandoned an investigation into the alleged abuse of power by Justice Minister Penuell Maduna and National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka.

"It is completely untrue that we have dropped any of the complaints. I have been instructed by the Kebbles to investigate such abuses of power both nationally and internationally as they intend to pursue these complaints to the fullest extent,” confirmed Heath.

The Kebbles hired Heath earlier this year to probe Kebble Snr's November 11, 2002, arrest at Johannesburg International Airport.

At a media briefing in July, JCI chief executive Brett Kebble insisted that gold mining company Durban Roodepoort Deep (DRD) had bribed police to frame Roger Kebble for fraud.

Kebble and his father have a long-running dispute with DRD and its current chairperson and chief executive, Mark Wellesley-Wood, over a series of decisions made by DRD's board in 1999 and 2000.

These include a series of share transactions related to the attempted acquisition of Randfontein Estates gold mine, as well as Kebble Snr's removal from the DRD board, where he had been chairperson. – Sapa.