Paul O'Sullivan summonsed to appear in court

Private forensic investigator‚ Paul O'Sullivan‚ has been summonsed to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court today. It follows his foiled arrest by police earlier this week.

O'Sullivan has been accused of impersonating of an Independent Police Investigative Directorate officer during a directorate investigation into national police commissioner‚ Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane.

• McBride says O'Sullivan did not claim to be IPID investigator in Phahlane probeRobert McBride‚ head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid)‚ has told Parliament that the arrests of Paul O' Sullivan and his assistant were an attempt to disrupt their investigation into acting Police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane and an act of intimidation. 

Phahlane is under investigation for corruption which is linked to him allegedly receiving financial kickbacks from chemical manufacturing companies awarded supply tenders to the police forensic science laboratories‚ which he used to head.

Phahlane approached the Pretoria High Court last week to have O'Sullivan ordered to stop providing assistance to the Directorate in their investigation of him.

• Ipid lashes out at cops over O'Sullivan's arrestThe arrest of private forensic investigator Paul O'Sullivan is an act of intimidation, abuse of power and an attempt to scupper the Independent Police Investigative Directorate's corruption investigation of acting national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane. 

Yesterday‚ Directorate head‚ Robert McBride‚ revealed to the Police Parliamentary Portfolio Committee how O'Sullivan's arrest was an attempt to disrupt their investigation into Phahlane‚ was an act of intimidation and contravened the Act which governed the Directorate.

Earlier this week‚ O'Sullivan's release was ordered after the police were found to be in violation of an earlier court order which said that he had to be given 48-hours notice if he was to be arrested.

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