By Johnathan Paoli
Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has levelled sweeping allegations of corruption, abuse of state resources and deliberate deception against senior South African Police Service (SAPS) officials, while accusing Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee probing police misconduct of obstructing his efforts to testify.
In a detailed written submission to the Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, O’Sullivan alleges a coordinated pattern of criminality within senior SAPS structures, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal, centred on the misuse of covert operational funds, unlawful property acquisitions and the shielding of compromised officers.
“From a criminal’s perspective, the slush fund is a proverbial ‘manna from heaven’. The slush fund is easily available cash, to the tune of over half a billion Rand pa., with ZERO controls over how it is spent.
“The slush fund budget has increased by more than 500% in the last 13 years, which is way
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