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Trial date set for multimillionaire Eskom supplierâs tax evasion case
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The Pretoria Regional Court has set a trial date against businessman Maphoko Hudson Kgomoeswana - an Eskom supplier - following charges of tax evasion against him since 2016.
Kgomoeswana faces charges of tax evasion valued at R5 million related to his personal and business tax related to Babinatlou Business Services between 2016 and 2018.
According to the charge sheet served on his lawyers on Thursday, the tax fraud charges were discovered during the investigation of the controversial R745 million Eskom Kusile Power Station corruption case.
Kgomoeswana and his company are accused of facilitating bribes in the fraud and corruption matter.
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Hlakudi has brought an application to have the case struck from the roll.
A Pretoria magistrate will rule on the case next month.
Former Eskom senior manager France Hlakudi brought an application in the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday to have his tax fraud and evasion case struck off the roll.
His lawyers argued the fraud charges should not be applicable in this case and should be struck off before it proceeded to trial, the spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority s Investigating Unit, Sindisiwe Twala, said.
However, the Investigating Directorate argued Hlakudi intentionally defrauded the South African Revenue Services by failing to disclose his true income, which amounts to an intent to defraud the state , she added.
Former Eskom executive France Hlakudi wants R30m tax evasion case struck off roll
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Cape Town â Former Eskom senior manager France Hlakudiâs tax matter was postponed to April 22 by the Pretoria Regional Court today.
This was to allow the magistrate, Adriaan Bekker, to hand down judgment on the application brought by the defence for the striking off of the fraud charges in the R30 million tax evasion matter, the Hawks reported on Wednesday. Hlakudi was Eskom Kusile Power Station senior manager for capital contracts.
ââHlakudiâs team argued that the fraud charges should not be applicable in this matter and should be struck off before the matter proceeds to trial.
Former Eskom manager asks for fraud charges to be removed
A former Eskom senior manager wants the court to strike the tax fraud charges he is facing in from the court roll.
Former Eskom senior manager, France Hlakudi, who is facing corruption charges related to the R745 million Kusile project argued in court on Wednesday that his tax fraud charges be removed from his additional tax evasion case.
Hlakudi’s attorney, Pieter Coetzee, argued in the Pretoria Regional Court before magistrate Adriaan Bekker, that the fraud charges should not be applicable in the matter and should be struck off the roll before the case proceeded to trial.