{"id":208091,"date":"2017-10-30T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=208091"},"modified":"2017-10-30T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T16:23:10","slug":"sars-deputy-cleared-of-all-wrongdoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/208091\/sars-deputy-cleared-of-all-wrongdoing\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS deputy cleared of all wrongdoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended SARS number two, Jonas Makwakwa will be back at work this week, after being cleared of all wrongdoing, the tax body announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Makwakwa was suspended following after the\u00a0Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) released a report implicating the deputy in questionable financial activity involving R1.2 million in payments made to his and his partner&#8217;s personal bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>SARS confirmed on Monday that a hearing chaired by law firm,\u00a0Hogan Lovells, found that\u00a0Makwakwa was not guilty of any of the charges levelled against him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SARS wishes to announce that after approximately a year in suspension, Chief Officer: Business &amp; Individual Tax (BAIT), Mr Jonas Makwakwa, will return to the organisation with effect from 1 November 2017.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Makwakwa&#8217;s partner,\u00a0Kelly-Anne Elksie, was also cleared and is reportedly set to return to work.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/136803\/sars-number-two-suspended-over-r1-2-million-in-suspicious-payments\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">SARS number two suspended over R1.2 million in suspicious payments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended SARS number two, Jonas Makwakwa will be back at work this week, after being cleared of all wrongdoing, the tax body announced on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":80497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208093,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208091\/revisions\/208093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}