Tom Moyane to appear before finance committee about Makwakwa probe
SOUTH African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane and Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) executive director Murray Michel will be summoned to appear before Parliament’s standing committee on finance on October 12.There, they will have to explain their handling of an investigation into the allegations surrounding the "suspicious and unusual payments" of R1.2m allegedly received by senior SARS executive Jonas Makwakwa.The committee’s decision was taken in response to a request by DA finance spokesperson David Maynier."There are a number of burning questions about the handling of the investigation that will have to be probed, not least why these serious allegations, which may constitute a crime in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, 121 of 1998, do not appear to have been referred to the SAPS [South African Police Service]," Maynier said on Tuesday.He welcomed the committee’s decision to be briefed on the matter.SARS suspended Makwakwa, the chief officer for bus...
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