Shaun Abrahams denies targeting Pravin Gordhan
Former prosecutions head says he was not a state capture agent and says he was not acting on the instruction of former president Jacob Zuma
Former prosecutions head Shaun Abrahams has vehemently denied that he targeted former finance minister Pravin Gordhan “in malicious and seemingly politically motivated criminal charges”, and is adamant that he never acted as a puppet for the interests of former president Jacob Zuma. Abrahams has been portrayed as an agent of alleged state capture at the Zondo inquiry, as well as the Mokgoro inquiry into the fitness to hold office of suspended prosecutions heavyweights Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi. But in an affidavit to the Zondo inquiry, whose contents Business Day has been granted permission to publish, he insists nothing could be further from the truth. He also hit back at allegations that the decision to charge Gordhan with fraud had dire consequences for SA’s financial market as based on “conclusions that are not independently verifiable”. The announcement of the charges in October 2016 negatively affected the rand, with some estimates saying the JSE lost about R50bn on th...
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