SA Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane has responded to Corruption Watch’s threat to lay criminal charges against him.The civil rights body wrote a letter to Moyane on Tuesday concerning his failure to act decisively on the findings of the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) report detailing fraud and corruption by his deputy Jonas Makwakwa and his girlfriend Kelly-Ann Elskie.The FIC is a banking regulator and provided the report to SARS recommending investigations into whether R1.2-million in "suspicious and unusual" deposits into Makwakwa’s account were proceeds of crime‚ corruption or money laundering.Moyane has sat on the FIC report on Makwakwa since May‚ and SARS last month said the FIC had not been co-operating. Makwakwa has been suspended over the allegations.Moyane‚ in a letter sent to Corruption Watch‚ said that before he “could report this matter to the SAPS‚ I was advised by the Hawks that the matter had already been referred to the SAPS during early June 2016...
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