Yunus Carrim sets Tom Moyane straight on his complaint about the FIC report
Yunus Carrim, the chairman of Parliament’s standing committee on finance, has responded to South African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Tom Moyane’s complaint about committee members being given a copy of the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) report pertaining to SARS’s head of business and individual tax, Jonas Makwakwa. In his letter to Carrim, Moyane said the report had been illegally made public as the Financial Intelligence Centre Act prohibited publication of the centre’s reports. The report on Makwakwa, who returned to work at SARS after being found not guilty in a disciplinary inquiry, noted that suspicious transactions amounting to R1.2m had been identified in his account. Committee members were provided with copies of the FIC report by parliamentary legal adviser Frank Jenkins. This was on the justification that it was already in the public domain, having been published by the Daily Maverick online newspaper. Moyane asked Carrim to ask Jenkins to provide the link to...
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