Inquiry presented with dossier on Moyane
THE Nugent Commission is expected to hear damning evidence of alleged rampant procurement irregularities at the SA Revenue Service (Sars) under suspended commissioner Tom Moyane.
The commission, chaired by retired Judge Robert Nugent, has summoned Solly Tshitangano, National Treasury’s head of supply chain management compliance and monitoring, to give details of his investigations into fraud and corruption at Sars since September 2004 – until the suspension of Moyane in March this year.
The Treasury had established a dossier which contained a litany of allegations against Moyane and some of his executives.
The dossier is expected to be presented to the commission today.
Tshitangano was previously summoned to appear before the commission on a specific issue. His testimony last month mainly focused on how Sars, through Moyane, had irregularly paid more than R200 million in 2014 to Bain Consulting to turnaround Sars.
After Tshitangano’s evidence of impropriety at Sars, Vittorio Massone of Bain Consulting indirectly admitted that former president Jacob Zuma had an influence in the appointment of his consulting agency to turnaround Sars.
Massone, who is due to continue his testimony today – also confessed last month that he and his team met Zuma and Moyane around 2013 at Nkandla.
Now, Tshitangano is expected to broaden his testimony on how Sars funds were allegedly looted to benefit a few of the groupings who allegedly had close ties with Moyane and some of his executives.
According to insiders, some of the irregularly appointments were of prestigious law firms in the country.
Earlier, the commission heard how Moyane threatened to take legal action against Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu following the publication of an adverse report against the revenue authority in March last year.
Moyane, due to the negative Makwetu report, allegedly appointed a law firm to sue the auditor-general.
The report found that Sars had grossly misrepresented facts on tax revenue collection and compliance on personal income tax.
Insiders said the dossier contained the appointment of several consulting companies to do work in Sars without the approval of the Treasury and the Finance Minister.