During a meeting, Chief Perumal asked about a circulating clip, and Mr. Raphesu was tasked to find out from Mr. O'Sullivan if he had opened a case regarding the BMW lady issue or done any work on it.
“during the engagement in the meeting, Chief Perumal asked about a clip that was circulating... they tasked me to go to Mr O’Sullivan to find out if he had opened a case against ... around this issue about the BMW lady ... also to find out if he has conducted or done anything on that matter”
Mr. Raphesu spoke to Mr. O'Sullivan, who provided him with a letter (unclear if from or to the Minister) and a report including CPB details about Brigadier Mokwele; details were sent via email already to Andrea Johnson on 5 December 2025.
“he gave me a letter . I am not sure whether it was the letter to the Minister or from the Minister ... He also provided me with a report ... On that report ... there is something that you call CPB ... So those details , he provided them via email ... that information was sent to Andrea Johnson on the 5th ... of December 2025 already”
Adv Johnson is aware that Mr O'Sullivan may have had some engagement from time to time with IDAC investigators, but he himself has had no such conversations.
“I am aware ... that he would have had from time to time engagements with investigators. ... I have not had conversations.”
Mr O'Sullivan, associated with law enforcement, purportedly engaged with IDAC possibly by providing information to IDAC investigators, not discussing ongoing investigations.
“If Mr O'Sullivan spoke to IDAC investigators purporting to give them information. That would have been the only basis on which he would have had to engage.”
Mr O'Sullivan did not refer the specific case to IDAC; the first referral looked at by the speaker was the affidavit by Mr Adam dated 21 November, followed by a letter from the Minister's office dated 11 November.
“I am unaware of any referral with regards this matter from Mr O'Sullivan... I do confirm that the Minister's office did write a letter to us... and then there is the referral by Mr Adams dated the 21st of November... I am unaware... of any referral made by Mr O'Sullivan”
MR O'Sullivan has personal knowledge of the facts about these relationships and the murder of Brett Kebble, having met a source the morning after Kebble's murder who gave him information about the gun used.
“I do have personal knowledge ... The morning after Brett Kebble was murdered... on the morning of the 16th of September 2005, I met with a source at the McDonald's at Bruma who gave me the information about the gun that was used to kill Mr Kebble”
Mr O'Sullivan investigated the money laundering and handed a detailed sworn statement from the bank manager Alekos Panayi to General Mabasa.
“and that is what I handed over to General Mabasa , because I had interviewed this bank manager and I had taken a very detailed sworn statement from him , and I supplied that to General Mabasa .”
Mr O'Sullivan shared investigation information about Radovan Krejčer with Generals Sibiya and Dramat to ensure knowledge was at different police levels and to avoid a single point of failure.
“Whatever I supplied to General Sibiya at that moment in time , I used to also supply to General Dramat because I did not want a single point of entry . I wanted there to be knowledge at different levels within the police about what was going on .”
Mr O'Sullivan mistakenly assumed General Mabasa was reaching out due to knowledge and gave him the investigation file because he concluded Mabasa and Sibiya had instructed Crime Intelligence to investigate the matter.
“I wrongly came to the conclusion that General Dramat and General Sibiya had instructed Crime Intelligence to get to the bottom of this matter , and I assumed , therefore , that General Mabasa was reaching out to me because he had knowledge . So if you have got this knowledge , then you must be involved in it . So I readily gave him this file .”
Mr O'Sullivan confirmed he did a check on the vehicle registration through a lawful, private closed-source database accessible to certified fraud examiners and forensic investigators, not the public NATIS system.
“We do not have access to the NATIS system . We have access to what we call closed - source databases . So we have to sign a code of conduct . So they are accessible by certified fraud examiners , forensic investigators . It is not the same system that the police use . It is a private system that is used . For example , Trans Union , I do not actually do the checks myself . I have staff that do it , but I do not know the systems we use , but they are all above board and all lawful .”
Mr. O'Sullivan sent an email to Radovan Krejcir's lawyers demanding R50,000,000 and stating he can now prove Colonel Steyn supplied Krejcir with his cellular phone records, putting Mr. O'Sullivan's life at risk, implying corrupt dealings between Krejcir and Steyn.
“I am demanding R 50000000 rand ... I can now prove that Steyn supplied Krejcir with my cellular phone records, thereby further putting my life at risk ... I talk about Radovan Krejcir having corrupted Steyn”
Mr. O'Sullivan admitted he never provided General Sibiya or General Dramat with evidence to prove Colonel Steyn supplied Krejcir with his cellular phone records; he was bluffing Radovan Krejcir's lawyers to make them believe he had evidence.
“No, Commissioner, I did not ... I am bluffing Radovan Krejcir's lawyers ... I want them to think I have got the evidence, but the reality is I did not have the evidence.”
Mr. O'Sullivan received a tip-off through Forensics for Justice concerning allegations that a person is involved in facilitating drug trafficking with Nafiz Modack, involved in chop shops, money laundering for criminals, protecting certain criminals including close friend of ex-Deputy National Commissioner Vineshkumar Moonoo, and lacking security clearance due to covert criminal activities and questionable business activities.
“He is involved in facilitating drug trafficking with Nafiz Modack of the Western Cape ... involved in chop shops ... involved in money laundering for criminals ... He protects certain criminals, notably Mr Preggie Padayachee ... has no security clearance because of his covert criminal activities and questionable business activities”
O'Sullivan forwarded a formal complaint to General Masemola, the then Commissioner of Police, on 1 July 2023, concerning allegations related to General Khan's involvement with illicit tobacco trade associates.
“I write to the new, or then relatively new, Commissioner of Police, which is General Masemola, on the 1st of July, ... I am forwarding the original email that I have sent two years earlier .”
O'Sullivan received no response to his complaints or communications to police management about corruption allegations, which he states is typical behavior of the police service.
“No , Commissioners , no response whatsoever . And by that stage, I think it become the order of the day that any such communications were just ignored .”
O'Sullivan was unable to supply prima facie evidence to support his allegations against General Khan and others, therefore no criminal docket was opened by police management.
“I was not able to supply any prima facie evidence ... You cannot open a criminal docket based on a hypothesis .”
O'Sullivan carried out extensive investigations and criminal complaints against General Phahlane between 2015 and 2017, including lodging complaints with IPID and informing national leadership including Cyril Ramaphosa.
“Between 2015 and 2017, I carried out extensive investigations and lodged various criminal complaints against General Phahlane with IPID ... I supplied copies of my criminal complaint to then-Deputy President of South Africa, now-President Cyril Ramaphosa .”
O'Sullivan alleges he was singled out for unlawful acts by corrupt police officials instigated by General Phahlane and senior officers, including multiple arrests, raids, kidnapping, torture, unlawful imprisonment, and attempted proxy murders.
“I was singled out for unlawful action by corrupt police officials at the instance of both General Phahlane and other senior officers . The crimes against me included multiple arrests, multiple raids on my home and offices, kidnapping, torture, unlawful imprisonment, and multiple attempts at murder by proxy .”
O'Sullivan was unlawfully arrested and detained for over two years for using his Irish passport, a precaution he took due to threats on his life from Radovan Krejcir and his corrupt connections within the police.
“I was unlawfully arrested and detained over two years later for using my Irish passport ... at the time Radovan Krejcir was not in jail, but he had cops on his payroll ... they were waiting for me to come back into South Africa so they could arrange for me to be murdered .”
Major General Mokotedi unlawfully infringed Mr O’Sullivan’s rights contravening section 17(1) of the SAPS Act related to his arrest on 1 April 2016 at OR Tambo International Airport.
“Major General Mokotedi is found guilty of having seriously and unlawfully infringed the rights of Mr O'Sullivan as contemplated in section 17(1) of the SAPS Act”
A campaign over several years targeted Mr O’Sullivan, Forensics for Justice, and his staff involving about 30 police officials under General Mokotedi.
“Mokotedi was the senior person who led the group of about 30 police officials who targeted me and Forensics for Justice and the staff that worked for me. So as you will see, there was a campaign over several years against us”
General Mokotedi falsely claimed under oath regarding Mr O’Sullivan’s arrest, and the cold cases were resurrected to harass Mr O’Sullivan.
“One has to be extremely gullible to accord any credence to Mokotedi's averment ... that all the complainants in the cold cases magically came out of the woodwork and urged that charges they laid against O'Sullivan years before be resuscitated or reopened ... I reject this explanation as a figment of his fertile imagination ...”
The reopening of cold cases was designed to harass Mr O’Sullivan and chill his forensic investigations against corruption.
“I am satisfied that the reinvestigation of the cases was meant to and did harass O'Sullivan. It was designed to have a chilling effect on his forensic investigations and to fight corruption”
General Phahlane was the target of a criminal complaint opened by Mr O'Sullivan, and the conduct listed against him happened to Mr O'Sullivan and others connected to him, driven mainly by Major General Mokotedi acting on instructions from General Ntlemeza and General Phahlane.
“The only thing it is to do about General Phahlane is that all of this conduct happened against me because I opened a criminal complaint against General Phahlane ... but the driving force, according to the DPCI judge's report, was Major General Mokotedi who was acting on the instructions of both General Ntlemeza ... and General Phahlane.”
A copy of Mr O'Sullivan's complaint was supplied to General Phahlane instead of being investigated, leading to attacks against him and his staff.
“the complaint I laid was, a copy of it was supplied to General Phahlane instead of the matter being investigated, and that led to the attacks against myself and my staff”
General Phahlane attempted to derail investigations through various means including appointing a so-called North West Team led by General Mabula to find dirt on IPID investigators and Mr O'Sullivan.
“there were a number of legs where General Phahlane attempted to derail the investigations into him, and those legs took various forms... One of the forms was the appointment of the so-called North West Team, which was General Mabula and a whole lot of Brigadiers and Colonels. And their job was to try and find dirt on the IPID investigators and myself”
Mr O'Sullivan says the interference related to General Mkhwanazi's approach in the Phahlane case is not evident in the affidavit he sees.
“You cannot see that in that statement... You would have to be involved on the ground at the time... All of this was going on at the same time as the Phahlane investigation”
Mr O'Sullivan has never received a Louis Vuitton bag from General Mkhwanazi and doubts the accuracy of the media article suggesting otherwise.
“I have never received a Louis Vuitton bag. Instead, he makes throwaway comments, such as, at least my wife now knows what a Louis Vuitton bag is valued at... That is my understanding, Commissioner.”
Mr O'Sullivan asserts that the Commission was previously unaware that the conduct Mr Mkhwanazi is now complaining about was exactly the conduct he was involved in years back.
“this Commission would be completely unaware of the fact that the conduct he is now complaining of was exactly the conduct that he was involved in some years back”
Mr O'Sullivan implies that if one claims to be a whistleblower, he/she should be a whistleblower with clean hands, implying Mr Mkhwanazi may not qualify as such.
“if you are going to be a whistle blower, as he claims to be, you should be a whistle blower with clean hands”
Mr O'Sullivan argues it would have been better had Mr Mkhwanazi taken action in writing instead of speaking out at a media conference to avoid public confidence loss in the criminal justice system.
“I think it would have been better, rather than speak out at a media conference, to take action without drawing down the public confidence in the criminal justice system”
Mr. O'Sullivan expresses disbelief that a senior police official could have been unaware of media reports about Richard Mdluli, stating it is inconceivable that no close police colleagues informed him and that he became aware because he laid a grievance.
“he became aware of it somehow because he laid a grievance”
Mr O'Sullivan was named by General Mkhwanazi because he called for the suspension of five Generals and two Brigadiers, having no knowledge of the drug cartels and other implicated parties until hearing about them in the media.
“I had no knowledge of what was going on until I heard about it in the media . But for him to name me, why was he naming me ? ... I got my attorneys to write a letter to General Masemola and demand that these five Generals and two Brigadiers be suspended . That is why I was named .”
Mr O'Sullivan states he brought information to the Commission having spent 36 years trying to improve South Africa and wants to contribute to justice.
“I brought the information to this Commission because I have spent the last 36 years of my life trying to make this a better country to live in for all people in South Africa and that is why, when I saw what was going on, I thought, uh-uh, I need to throw my 10 cents into the mixture as well ...”
Five Generals and two Brigadiers, arrested and charged with serious crimes including corruption, were never suspended despite a letter demanding their suspension.
“five Generals and two Brigadiers, there is going to be no suspension. By the way, they were never suspended.”
MR O'SULLIVAN described the National Commissioner's response as an 'arrogant middle finger response' to the lawyer's letter of demand regarding suspension.
“A arrogant middle finger response to my attorney's letter of demand.”
Despite arrests and charges for serious crimes including corruption, the five Generals and two Brigadiers were not immediately suspended, contrary to police practice with other officers.
“...senior police officials have been suspended instantly and that, what is good for the goose is good for the gander... the five Generals and these two Brigadiers, we get this response saying, I will do what has to be done, I will comply with the legislation, but actually nothing was done. They have never been suspended.”
MR O'SULLIVAN's response letter to the National Commissioner was intended to be antagonistic and to put the Commissioner under pressure because the letter of demand legally prevented an urgent application to court for suspension.
“My response to him was meant to be antagonistic. It was meant to put him under pressure. I realize, because I took legal advice based on the letter that he had given, we were ready to bring an urgent application, but based on that letter, damn, we cannot bring the urgent application.”
Mr O'Sullivan received a copy of the PowerPoint presentation unexpectedly from a journalist after the media briefing, which allowed him to check the metadata with a forensic tool.
“I would have ever thought that I would receive a copy of that PowerPoint presentation ... I did not even know the media briefing was going on until a journalist phoned me and said this guy is talking about you ... he sent it to me so not realizing I could now check, which I do with a forensic tool, I am able to pull the metadata from that and I thought oh, that is interesting.”
Mr O'Sullivan believes the media conference had a motive according to General Mkhwanazi but suspects there may have been a 'third force' influencing the matter, and questions the process's transparency and the presence of armed guards.
“when I ask this question, it links to a previous question I made ... about the motive to this media conference ... the motive according to General Mkhwanazi was that ... I am going to become a whistleblower ... I am surrounded by people with machine guns and balaclavas ... there could have been other ways of getting the same amount of attention on this matter without necessarily having this whole media briefing ...”