O’Sullivan probed
police commissioner, Hawks boss before arrest
Pieter-Louis Myburgh2016-04-04 12:30
Private forensic
investigator Paul O’Sullivan, who is currently in the Kempton Park Magistrates’
Court after his dramatic arrest at OR Tambo International Airport on Friday,
had previously laid criminal complaints against the South African Police
Service’s highest-ranked officers.
O’Sullivan has,
since 2014, laid several charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering and
defeating the ends of justice against acting police commissioner Kgomotso
Phahlane, detectives boss Vinesh Moonoo and Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza.
Rapport, City
Press’ sister paper, has obtained the police Crime Administration System (CAS)
numbers and related affidavits for the complaints against the senior police
officials.
The complaints
against Moonoo were lodged at the Linden and Randburg police stations in 2014
and 2015 and, among other issues, relate to Moonoo’s alleged ties to known
members of South Africa’s criminal underworld.
In February this
year, O’ Sullivan also laid a complaint of corruption, money laundering and
racketeering at the Sandton SAPS against Phahlane. The complaint in part
relates to an all-expenses-paid holiday that Phahlane enjoyed in 2011,
allegedly paid for by a SAPS contractor. Phahlane was then the head of the
police’s forensic unit.
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