President Jacob Zuma looks set to try to capitalise on the dark cloud hanging over auditing firm KPMG’s branch in SA as he begins a new bid to avoid facing corruption charges. KPMG is facing a credibility crisis flowing from its work done for the Gupta family and the South African Revenue Service (SARS). A forensic audit of Zuma’s finances formed part of the corruption case against him. It was conducted by Johan van der Walt, who compiled the report on the so-called SARS "rogue unit". He is facing an investigation by the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors for his work on the SARS report. Van der Walt testified at the trial of Zuma’s former financial adviser Schabir Shaik, who was convicted of corruption and fraud in 2005 in the High Court in Durban. Judge Hilary Squires found that Van der Walt had been an impartial witness."Van der Walt … simply described chapter and verse, in extraordinary detail, the evidence that he culled from the mass of documents given to him to investi...
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