Business and individual tax head Jonas Makwakwa’s woes at the South African Revenue Service (SARS) are set to continue with the Hawks confirming they are still investigating him. Anticorruption organisation Corruption Watch is also considering legal action over the R1.2m suspicious and unusual transactions in his personal bank accounts and that of his partner, Kelly-Ann Elskie, who is also a SARS employee. These allegations feature prominently in a Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) report. This was after SARS had cleared Makwakwa and Elskie of all charges and lifted their suspensions. Makwakwa returned to work at SARS on November 1. SARS had commissioned international law firm Hogan Lovells to investigate the transactions, but the firm said in a statement the scope of its investigation was "limited" and it did not "directly investigate the financial transactions identified by the FIC", raising questions about the duo’s return to work. Hogan Lovells said that "all criminal related ...
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