EXPLOSIVE CLAIM
SARS boss Tom Moyane ‘told probe witness to feign illness’
Former SARS commissioner Ivan Pillay makes the claim in an explosive letter to Shaun Abrahams
South African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane allegedly instructed a witness to "feign illness" and not report for an interview scheduled with KPMG in 2015. This is one of the allegations former SARS commissioner Ivan Pillay has made in an explosive letter sent to national director of public prosecutions Shaun Abrahams. "The effect thereof was that material facts known to Mr [Hendrick] Lombard were omitted in the KPMG report including‚ inter alia‚ ‘Sunday Evenings’‚" the letter stated. Lombard was one of two whistle-blowers linked to operation Project Sunday Evenings‚ which was allegedly established to spy on the Natio-nal Prosecuting Authority (NPA). Pillay’s letter came as special investigating unit the Hawks sought to revive its case against a "rogue unit" at SARS. KPMG has withdrawn its findings and conclusions relating to its report on the "rogue unit". Pillay and former tax officials Johann van Loggerenberg and Andries Janse van Rensburg were served with summons...
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