Sars rogue unit: Gordhan wants Mkhwebane to pay legal costs out of her own pocket

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Minister Gordhan wants the full bench of the high court to review and set aside the public protector’s report into former acting Sars commissioner Ivan Pillay’s early retirement with full pension benefits.

Johannesburg - Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan’s advocate Wim Trengove on Thursday asked the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria to order that Public Protector advocate Busi Mkhwebane pay costs of his lawsuit out of her own pocket.

Trengove told the virtual hearing that his client wanted not only costs against the Public Protector’s Office but against her personally. According to Trengove, Mkhwebane’s findings that Gordhan had breached the code were without evidence. ”Her conduct is worthy of censure, censure should not be directed at her office but against the person,” Trengove said. rule as she never gave any of the people against whom she made orders against an opportunity to hear their side.

 

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