The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has formally requested the South African Police Service (SAPS) to investigate an allegation that Nazir Alli, the former CEO of the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral), has committed perjury. The charges were laid at the Linden police station on December 16 in an affidavit submitted by Outa consultant John Clarke, prepared by Outa’s legal department, the organisation said on Monday morning. The charge arose out of the sworn statement made by Alli in the dispute between the City of Cape Town and Sanral over Alli’s handling of the proposed tolling of national roads in the Western Cape, Outa said. "Alli had made a declaration in a sworn statement dated October 2 2014, stating that the Sanral board had passed a resolution in 2004 to declare sections of the N1 and N2 in the Western Cape as toll roads. However, Alli could not produce minutes of the board meeting to prove that the any such resolution was taken before the 2008 gazett...
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