A case against three top former Sars officials was postponed for the third time on Friday. Ivan Pillay‚ Johann van Loggerenberg and Andries Janse van Rensburg were due to make oral submissions in the Pretoria magistrate’s court in their application to compel the state to hand over parts of a docket being withheld by the state in the criminal case against them. Pillay was the former deputy commissioner at Sars. Although they had been provided with part A of the police docket‚ comprising an official complaint lodged by suspended Sars commissioner Tom Moyane‚ they wanted to be provided with parts B and C of the docket. Part B contains internal reports and memorandum‚ and part C contains the investigation diary. Business Day reported in June that they were appearing in court on charges related to the alleged bugging of the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) offices in 2007. The charges formed part of an alleged "rogue unit" narrative. The bugging allegations surfaced in a KPMG repor...
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