{"id":313648,"date":"2019-04-28T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T12:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=313648"},"modified":"2019-04-28T14:59:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T12:59:20","slug":"sars-goes-after-top-anc-officials-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/313648\/sars-goes-after-top-anc-officials-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS goes after top ANC officials: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top officials, politicians and businessmen of South Africa\u2019s ruling party are facing tax claims of more than R250 million ($17.4m) on income earned from Bosasa, the services company at the center of a widespread graft scandal, the Johannesburg Sunday Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>The South Africa Revenue Service has concluded preliminary investigations that may lead to charges of under-declared income, overstated expenses and other misrepresentations against members of the African National Congress party, Sunday Times said.<\/p>\n<p>Those on the SARS list, the newspaper reported, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dudu Myeni, the chairwoman of ousted President Jacob Zuma\u2019s charitable foundation;<\/li>\n<li>Minister of Environmental Affairs Nomvula Mokonyane;<\/li>\n<li>Former National Prosecuting Authority prosecutors Nomgcobo Jiba;<\/li>\n<li>and Lawrence Mrwebi ANC lawmaker Vincent Smith Former correctional services commissioner Zack Modise.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Angelo Agrizzi, Bosasa\u2019s chief operating officer from 1999 to 2016, told a judicial inquiry that\u2019s probing graft during Zuma\u2019s rule that the company paid R300,000 a month to the former leader\u2019s charitable foundation in return for protection from prosecution.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/313626\/latest-election-poll-shows-the-da-and-anc-in-trouble\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latest election poll shows the DA and ANC in trouble<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top officials, politicians and businessmen of South Africa\u2019s ruling party are facing tax claims of more than R250 million ($17.4m) on income earned from Bosasa, the services company at the center of a widespread graft scandal, the Johannesburg Sunday Times reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":221605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-313648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313648","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313656,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313648\/revisions\/313656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}