On Friday, Paul O’Sullivan was recognized by his peers as the Certified Fraud Examiner of the year. Well-deserved recognition and the kind of award that the founder of Forensics for Justice is sure to treasure. He holds the association in high esteem – never missing an opportunity to add CFE behind his name.
But O’Sullivan may well deserve an even greater bigger for his actions on Friday when, very possibly, his forthright advice may have changed the course of South African history. O’Sullivan had been struggling with a lurgie, so was only able to grant a promised interview on the last working day of the week. The timing could not have been better.
In our interview O’Sullivan made two telling points – first, in his professional opinion SA president Cyril Ramaphosa had no charge to answer over the Phala Phala ‘scandal’ which Paul concludes was a clear and obvious set-up. And second, if CR did indeed resign – as numerous people were urging – it would be a clear admission of guilt.
We’ll never know for sure whether Ramaphosa watched and acted on O’Sullivan’s advice. But it is notable that the recording started going viral around the time CR was due to leave for the ANC’s National Executive Committee meeting – but delayed his departure and then pulled out completely. Did O’Sullivan help SA avoid another own goal? I’d like to think so.
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Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan says the entire Phala Phala scandal threatening SA’s President is a setup engineered by disgraced former director general of State Security Arthur Fraser, his ‘sleeper’ inside the Ramaphosa household and ‘flexible’ journalists. He says there is no case for Ramaphosa to answer as Fraser’s affidavit, which sparked the controversy, is long on hearsay and short on fact. O’Sullivan urges Ramaphosa to display backbone and reject calls for his departure, saying he must not abandon the country in its hour of need. To resign now, the Forensics for Justice founder adds, would be an admission of guilt. He spoke to Alec Hogg of BizNews.
