Tom Moyane, the commissioner of the SA Revenue Service (Sars), is mighty unimpressed with this magazine after we dubbed him "the man breaking Sars" last week. But then he hasn’t exactly won many friends since opening a criminal case, implicating finance minister Pravin Gordhan, on wafer-thin grounds. But the issue now is whether Moyane dithered when shown evidence of ostensibly shady behaviour by his deputy, Jonas Makwakwa, a 19-year Sars veteran who has been described as Moyane’s "hatchet man". In a statement pregnant with irony, Moyane said the Financial Mail was "malicious" and part of a group that "does not want to allow a legitimate process ... with respect to the allegations against Jonas Makwakwa to follow due process." It’s rather rich of Moyane to now invoke "due process". As long ago as May, the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) alerted him to claims that Makwakwa "may be involved in, or facilitating corrupt activities". It’s not as if the FIC’s report was open to much i...
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