Paul O’Sullivan, the man behind the charges against the country’s top cop, said he was told last year by the Gauteng Hawks head that he had upset too many people. The charges O’Sullivan laid, which relate to kickbacks that acting national police commissioner Lt-Gen Khomotso Phahlane allegedly received for awarding contracts to service providers when he headed the police forensic science laboratory, led the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) to swoop on Phahlane’s R8m home on Thursday. The police commissioner indicated on Thursday that he might take legal action after Ipid’s hour-long raid at his Pretoria’s Sable Hills Waterfront Estate at Roodeplaat Dam left his family traumatised. O’Sullivan said on Friday that Phahlane was behind his being "hauled off a plane" to London last year after he had declared that the "criminal justice system in SA had been taken over by criminals". He said he had no doubts about Phahlane’s involvement because‚ the day after that incident...
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