Pretoria – Private forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan said on Friday that he will lay criminal charges and institute a civil claim of R100m against senior police officials instrumental in his "kidnapping".
O’Sullivan was speaking outside the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court after the case against him, his assistant Sarah-Jane Trent and two IPID investigators Mandlakayise Mahlangu and Temane Abram Binang was postponed.
They are charged with extortion, fraud and intimidation.
O’Sullivan said he would be opening a criminal case and lodging a civil claim against a number of people that he would name in due course.
He said this was because he had been kidnapped by police and his private phone messages had been taken and made public.
"On the 13th of February this year I was kidnapped, the cops kidnapped me, they took my cellphone and without telling me, they unlawfully downloaded my cellphone and read out the private messages of my cellphone to Parliament.