Moonsamy\u2019s statement is contained in a docket lodged with the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid).<\/p>\n
O\u2019Sullivan first sent an electronic copy of his allegations to Ipid\u2019s executive head, Israel Kgamanyane on February 25. He also copied three police generals on the email.<\/p>\n
The following day he delivered a lever-arch file to Ipid\u2019s office, which contained his and Moonsamy\u2019s statements plus several annexures.<\/p>\n
In his statement, O\u2019Sullivan accuses Phahlane of \u201ccorruption, money laundering and\/or racketeering\u201d.<\/p>\n
“Whilst I do expect to be victimised for opening this docket, I request that no stone be left unturned in finding the truth.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Moonsamy\u2019s allegations of impropriety against Phahlane include claims linked to a 2011 chemical supply tender for the police forensic division, which Phahlane headed before his appointment as acting national commissioner in October last year.<\/p>\n Moonsamy states that since informing former police commissioner Riah Phiyega of his\u00a0concerns in 2014<\/a>, his allegations have not been tested and Phahlane has not been held accountable.<\/p>\n \u201cIn view of the fact that the massive abuse of public funds runs into excess of R50-million, I request a thorough police investigation into the supply of chemicals, the procurement process, the disposal of [expired] chemicals and Phahlane\u2019s role in protecting the supplier,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n \u201cWhilst I do expect to be victimised for opening this docket, I request that no stone be left unturned in finding the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n Moonsamy received the notice of intention to suspend on April 4, the same day that O\u2019Sullivan appeared in court on immigration-related charges.<\/p>\n AmaBhungane was unable to reach Moonsamy on his cellphone and his office said he was on leave.<\/p>\n But a police source with knowledge of the matter said Moonsamy faces charges for engaging the media and an \u201cinsolent\u201d request to Parliament\u2019s police portfolio committee in December to investigate Phahlane.<\/p>\n “It was clear that Moonsamy had exhausted all of the lines of communication to raise the complaint…”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n In his statement, O\u2019Sullivan explains that Moonsamy made contact with him last year after becoming \u201cdisillusioned with what he saw going on in the police and in particular the conduct of Phahlane\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was clear that Moonsamy had exhausted all of the lines of communication to raise the complaint in terms of the Protected Disclosures Act and \u2026 I agreed to help him, but requested a lot more information. He then made a U-turn and said that he was now about to get some feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n When other allegations apparently implicated Phahlane, O\u2019Sullivan in turn reached out to Moonsamy.<\/p>\n Sources close to the police investigation of O\u2019Sullivan believe his two-year crusade against powerful police figures including Phahlane, the head of detectives Vinesh Moonoo and Hawks boss Berning Ntlemeza, prompted his arrest.<\/p>\n O\u2019Sullivan has publicly accused the three generals of fraud, corruption and money laundering. He was arrested on April 1 on minor immigration-related charges while aboard a plane bound for the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n Before his arrest O\u2019Sullivan had sent an email to Phahlane, Moonoo, Kgamanyane and several other senior officials informing them of a press briefing he intended staging in London. His email said:\u00a0\u201cI shall be calling a full-blown media conference in Whitehall, London, the purpose of which will be to tell the world that SA has been taken over by a corrupt regime of Zupta-led criminals and that the world must now boycott SA in every way possible, just like they did during Apartheid, until the people run the country again.\u201d<\/p>\n “…\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>stop the corruption that is tearing this country apart”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cZupta\u201d is a reference to the alleged\u00a0relationship between president Jacob Zuma and the controversial and influential Gupta family.\u00a0O\u2019Sullivan continued:\u00a0\u201cI shall be departing here on 2016-04-01. Be like the apartheid government and stop me from leaving, thereby giving a global voice to my campaign, to stop the corruption that is tearing this country apart.\u201d<\/p>\n In the same email, which was blind-copied to several media outlets, O\u2019Sullivan claimed to have \u201cjust come from a top-secret meeting\u201d during which \u201can amount of R20-million\u201d was pledged, \u201cto be used to stop the Zupta crooks (including the infiltrated and criminalised South African Airways\/National Prosecuting Authority\/Hawks SA Police Service) in their tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n Some close to the investigation believe it is these words that may have sparked the treason charge police apparently want to to bring against O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n Moonsamy\u2019s suspension may also be part of a wider attempt to stifle allegations against top cops.\u00a0In December he asked Parliament\u2019s police portfolio committee to carry out a \u201ccomprehensive investigation\u201d of Phahlane. Somewhat prophetically, he said:\u00a0\u201cIf what I am saying is untrue, then I am willing to put my career of almost 30 years to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n This\u00a0is not the first time a police whistleblower connected with O\u2019Sullivan has made damning allegations against a senior officer.\u00a0In an affidavit reported last year January by amaBhungane<\/a>, Lieutenant Boitumelo Ramahlaha made\u00a0damning allegations<\/a> against current Hawks boss Berning Ntlemeza, his former boss in Limpopo.<\/p>\n Ramahlaha accused Ntlemeza of protecting a former Polokwane police captain between 2012 and 2014, allegedly because he was the boyfriend of Ntlemeza\u2019s daughter.<\/a><\/p>\n When he read that Ntlemeza had been appointed acting head of the Hawks, Ramahlaha, like Moonsamy, reached out to O\u2019Sullivan for help. (O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s public profile grew after he successfully exposed former police commissioner Jackie Selebi of corruption.)<\/p>\n “<\/em><\/strong>We truly do not find a reason why we should dignify the questions\u00a0…”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Ten days before Ntlemeza\u2019s December 2014 appointment, Ramahlaha sent an information note to police minister Nathi Nhleko titled \u201cComplaint against unprofessional conduct Major General Ntlemeza SAPS: Limpopo\u201d.\u00a0At the time, Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi told amaBhungane:\u00a0\u201cWe believe the affidavit is meant for jumbling up, cheap propaganda, blackmail [and] making confusion, and it is contentless.\u201d<\/p>\n Responding to amaBhungane\u2019s questions about Moonsamy\u2019s suspension this week, Mulaudzi said: \u201cWe truly do not find a reason why we should dignify the questions related to the report and your sources with a response.\u201d<\/p>\n In a follow-up response on Friday, Mulaudzi said:\u00a0\u201cColonel Moonsamy has been one of your sources. You therefore cannot make it the department\u2019s problem if you are unable to locate him. You never obtained permission from the department to liaise with him and thus it cannot be our issue if he is not available to feed you with what you have in common.<\/p>\n \u201cMatters relating to suspensions of any employee cannot be peddled through the media; such remains an employer and employee relationship-related issues.\u201d<\/p>\n This is not the first time Moonsamy has been under fire over his pursuit of allegations against Phahlane. In December 2014 the police\u2019s criminal record and crime scene management division head, Major General Vincent Khunou, sent a warning about him to the heads of all criminal record centres and local criminal records centres. He wrote:\u00a0\u201cIt has come to the attention of this office that the Commander of the Local Criminal Record Centre: East London has embarked on a process to source official information and records from members and LCRC offices in pursuance of his own personal agenda\/mission without following due processes and complying with the relevant prescripts.<\/p>\n \u201cThe desperation and witch-hunt evidence by the individual simultaneously taking up the roles of a whistle blower, complainant, investigating officer, auditor, representative of others and presiding officer cannot be tolerated. This unwanted behaviour, which is destructive and unprofessional will be dealt with \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFailure to comply with this instruction will result in disciplinary steps against the member and the commander of the respective LCRC office,\u201d Khunou threatened.<\/p>\n The head of East London\u2019s local criminal records centre, Colonel Sandragasen Moonsamy, has been formally suspended<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/further.co.za\/amabwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/amabhungane.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/250x106.jpg\")
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