Report on Jonas Makwakwa transactions was made public illegally, says SARS head Moyane
South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane has complained that a report by the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) on the suspicious transactions of SARS head of business and individual tax Jonas Makwakwa has been made public illegally. The Financial Intelligence Centre Act prohibits publication of the centre’s reports. The report on Makwakwa, who returned to work after being found not guilty in a disciplinary inquiry, noted that suspicious transactions amounting to R1.2m had been identified in his account. In a letter to finance committee chairman Yunus Carrim, Moyane complained that members of the committee had been provided with copies of the FIC report by parliamentary legal adviser Frank Jenkins on the justification that it was already in the public domain, having been published by the Daily Maverick newspaper.
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