The saga around the Sars \u201crogue unit\u201d, which has led in part to the recent clash between Minister Pravin Gordhan and the Hawks, is about to get a lot more interesting.<\/p>\n
Exclusive Books announced on its website on Friday that it is due to stock a book written by Johann van Loggerenberg, who was head of the investigating unit, and former Sars spokesperson Adrian Lackay.<\/p>\n
It is called Rogue: The Inside Story of Sars’s Elite Crime-busting Unit. Published by Jonathan Ball, it will go on sale next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cRogue is an expos\u00e9 of national importance that identifies the dark forces at play in politics and the business world,\u201d the cover reads. \u201cIt provides clarity to a saga that has left us asking \u2018Who can we trust?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The book is an inside view of the \u201crogue unit\u201d. It became part of public discourse after the Sunday Times began reporting on it in 2014.\u00a0 According to the reports, the unit spied on President Jacob Zuma and ran a brothel.<\/p>\n
Revelations<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn a plot of Machiavellian proportions, head of the elite crime-busting unit Johann van Loggerenberg and many of Sars\u2019 top management were forced to resign.<\/p>\n \u201cVan Loggerenberg’s select team of investigators, with their impeccable track record of busting high-level financial fraudsters and nailing tax criminals, lost not only their careers, but also their reputations,\u201d the book’s cover reveals.<\/p>\n The book promises to put the record straight that there was no rogue unit, and that a higher power was conspiring to capture Sars for its own ends.<\/p>\n It will reveal the details of some of the unit\u2019s investigations.<\/p>\n In his 16 years at Sars, Van Loggerenberg investigated Billy Rautenbach, Irvin Khoza, Julius Malema, Lolly Jackson, Glenn Agliotti, and Radovan Krejcir.<\/p>\n Exclusive Books Group CEO Benjamin Trisk said that every so often a book came along that made booksellers believe they were serving their community.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud to sell it, proud to stand by its disclosures and convinced that it will have a significant impact on our national discourse,\u201d Trisk said.<\/p>\n He said Rogue presents an alarming picture of how a national institution failed the country and shines an unnerving light on intelligence structures.<\/p>\n News24<\/a><\/p>\n SARS number two suspended over R1.2 million in suspicious payments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nMore on Sars<\/h3>\n