End senior police corruption to curb O’Sullivan’s ‘fake God status,’ says former senior NPA prosecutor

Testifying before Parliament’s ad hoc committee, former NPA advocate Michael Mashuga alleged that controversial investigator Paul O’Sullivan infiltrated the police watchdog and accessed confidential credit information without lawful authority. The only way to stop forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan from accessing sensitive personal information, including people’s credit records, is for senior officers to stop being corrupt, former senior National Prosecuting Authority advocate Michael Mashuga told Parliament. Mashuga was testifying before Parliament’s ad hoc committee on Wednesday.

The committee is investigating allegations of criminality and corruption within the criminal justice system raised by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Mashuga accused O’Sullivan of infiltrating the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) and accessing sensitive personal information without authorisation. “See how easily he accessed credit information records of people and didn’t see that as wrong.

He said, ‘No, I am allowed to do that.’ No lawful reason that he gave,” Mashuga said. He was responding to questions from Patriotic Alliance (PA) MP Ashley Sauls about how O’Sullivan was able to access individuals’ credit information.