Ipid’s investigation ‘flowing’ now former acting police commissioner has gone
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s (Ipid) investigation into former acting police commissioner Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane has been "able to flow" since his suspension. Ipid’s national head of investigations Matthews Sesoko spoke at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria on Tuesday at an event about corruption in the police. He said: "Since Phahlane has been removed‚ we found that the investigation was able to flow. We are able to get information from the police which before we could not get." Sesoko refused to elaborate on the investigation. Phahlane was removed as the acting national police commissioner in June this year after complaints of impropriety and corruption by forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan. Ipid is investigating allegations of corruption and money laundering‚ which involve Phahlane’s purchase of an R80‚000 sound system for his home‚ from a South African Police Service supplier. The head of the police’s integrity management B...
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