Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has been named as a person of interest by Crime Intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo when he testified before the Ad Hoc Committee. Crime Intelligence boss Dumisani Khumalo revealed that forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan has been under crime intelligence scrutiny for several months. “Without follow-ups on that, he has been one of the persons of interest for a few months,” Khumalo said.
He was responding to questions from EFF MP Leigh-Ann Mathys, when he was giving evidence at the Ad Hoc Committee on Thursday. The name of O’Sullivan has cropped up several times at the parliamentary inquiry, with some witnesses accusing him of having influence and conducting investigations at the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), among other things. Pressed on when O’Sullivan became a person of interest, Khumalo said it was for a period of about 12 months.
“As I indicated earlier on today that there are people that become people of interest just because they come out of nowhere and become something. He has been a person of interest.” Mathys noted that O’Sullivan, in his book, claims that he has Crime Intelligence officers who were giving him information. In his response, Khumalo said there were lots of investigations that were going on around the subject.
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“I think that is why this morning, one made a comment that talk to the culture in our country of looking at something happening, and doing nothing until it becomes a problem. Those are some of the issues one had to look at coming in the current position,” he said. Asked what he was doing with Crime Intelligence officers O’Sullivan claimed to provide him with information, Khumalo said there was a turnaround of the division.
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