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The state capture commission put it to him that the High Court in Pretoria set aside the Public Protector’s findings that like him said the unit was rogue.
Former South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Tom Moyane has told the commission of inquiry into state capture that two members of the so-called rogue unit confessed to him in 2015.
The tone for the country’s political week was set by the testimony of investigator Paul Holden to the commission on Monday, 24 May – an endless recital of figures with astounding amounts of zeros, millions and millions of taxpayers’ money laundered through the Gupta washing machines.
Moyane said the commissioner post was advertised in 2013, with Zuma informing him of his intention to appoint him, should the ANC win the 2014 elections.
The state capture commission said this was the first time that Tom Moyane admitted that he knew before anyone else that he would be South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner.
Squeezing into the Zondo Commission just days before it concludes, former SARS commissioner Tom Moyane finally gave his side of the story which sees him accused of presiding over the gutting of SARS. Moyane’s version: His work was ‘sterling’ and his fall from grace is the result of Minist...