‘Rogue unit victim’ to pay Pravin Gordhan millions after losing court case | IOL News

Johannesburg - South Africa’s multinational tobacco dealer, Martin Fraser Wingate-Pearse, was ordered to pay Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan a huge sum for legal costs for alleging that he was part of a “rogue unit” while SA Revenue Service commissioner.

This was after Sars conducted a search and seizure at his house in April 2005, and the revenue services obtained several documents showing he was not tax compliant in his tobacco and clothing businesses.According to documents before court, he made several legal efforts to challenge the amounts, including applying for tax amnesty.

In September 2015, he filed papers in the high court arguing that he was a victim of Sars’s ‘covert intelligence unit’. Wingate-Pearse also alleged that Sars illegally obtained information about his business dealings from his former friend Glenn Agliotti, and from former national police commissioner, the late Jackie Selebi, saying both had been competing directly with his ­business interests.

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