Pravin to be charged again

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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/exclusive-pravin-to-be-charged-again-20161106-2

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan is expected to be charged again next month.

And this time, a determined Hawks and National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) team want to make sure they have a strong case against him and his co-accused.

The new charges will relate to the establishment of the so-called rogue unit in 2007, when Gordhan was commissioner of the SA Revenue Service (Sars).

Two senior Hawks officials and an NPA executive close to the investigation have told City Press that Gordhan and his former Sars deputy, Ivan Pillay, will be charged “before Christmas”.

“This is not overnight work. There is a lot that we still have to do, but they will be charged before Christmas,” said a senior Hawks official this week.

Another senior Hawks officer said: “The charges laid against them will include fraud, defeating the ends of justice and contravention of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act.”

City Press has learnt that the Hawks and the NPA are aiming to list Gordhan as “accused number 1” on the charge sheet.

National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams surprised many on October 11, when he announced charges against Gordhan, Pillay and former Sars commissioner Oupa Magashula.

He spent most of that press briefing speaking about the alleged illegal Sars unit – but opted instead to charge the three with fraud and contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act relating to Pillay’s early retirement.

City Press has also established that the Hawks team investigating Sars’ High Risk Investigation Unit, dubbed the rogue unit, has been beefed up with an additional two investigators as it scrambles for further evidence against Gordhan and several other former Sars employees, including former group executive for investigations Johann van Loggerenberg.

The Hawks detectives “recently” approached former deputy finance minister Jabu Moleketi for a statement, and asked him to provide information about the formation of the investigation unit, which he initially opposed.

According to a “secret” information note sent by the Hawks to State Security Minister David Mahlobo on January 20, Moleketi had expressed misgivings about the unit’s establishment in February 2007, when Gordhan approved it and then finance minister Trevor Manuel signed it off.

In the note, it states that Moleketi wrote on Gordhan’s application: “Supported – however, this is a strange way of executing what I consider to be an economic mandate of NIA [the National Intelligence Agency]. It seems as though it is an add-on rather than part of NIA’s mandate.”

Moleketi yesterday confirmed he was approached to provide a statement to the Hawks.

“I was approached and I submitted a statement through my lawyers,” he said.

A senior Hawks officer said the probe into the unit was a “prosecutorial-led investigation”, and the NPA was providing the team with guidance and instructions.

The information note sent to Mahlobo by lead investigating officer Brigadier Nyameka Xaba alleges that Gordhan and Pillay were instrumental in the creation of the rogue unit. Xaba heads up a specialised Hawks unit, which has been set up to probe crimes against the state.

City Press has learnt that the NPA has allocated four prosecutors – all from the Priority Crimes Litigation Unit, which Abrahams used to head – to lead the investigation team.

Abrahams told Parliament during his grilling before the justice portfolio committee on Friday that the investigation into the rogue unit was at an advanced stage, “and we will make sure we do not make the same mistakes here”.

A senior prosecutor, based at the NPA’s headquarters in Silverton in Pretoria, said it was the “first time I have seen four prosecutors being allocated to one case”.

The prosecutor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Hawks detectives Xaba – as well as a Colonel H Maluleka, a Lieutenant Colonel S Palaza and a Captain M Sewele – were “regulars” in Abrahams’ office.

“They always meet in Shaun’s office. Lately, they have been given access cards. They are no longer required to sign the visitors’ registry and are no longer escorted through the building,” the prosecutor said.

NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku said no decision to prosecute Gordhan had yet been taken, adding: “The investigation is still under way.”
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ANC determined to destroy everything it touches. How about charging Zuma ya stupid peasants.
 
Poor Abrahams is potentially put himself out there for more butthurt. Hopefully he's learnt from the last time.
 
I have a sneaking suspicion that this whole yoyo affair with the minister of finance position is being done on purpose. My reasons for this are that I do believe someone in the anc has figured out how to play the financial markets. Invest in dollars, charge the FM, Rand tanks, sell dollars, withdraw charges, Rand recovers, repeat.
 
When is the coward Abrahams going to summons/ charge Zuma?
 
If this is another failed attempt they need to fire him. i wonder if this is done to mask them getting out of state of capture report i.e. So focus is lost
 
They want to charge him again but the biggest criminal is still in his position.
 
This country is fcked.

Junk status IS a given
 
friedpiggy said:
I have a sneaking suspicion that this whole yoyo affair with the minister of finance position is being done on purpose. My reasons for this are that I do believe someone in the anc has figured out how to play the financial markets. Invest in dollars, charge the FM, Rand tanks, sell dollars, withdraw charges, Rand recovers, repeat.
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Nail meet head.
 
friedpiggy said:
I have a sneaking suspicion that this whole yoyo affair with the minister of finance position is being done on purpose. My reasons for this are that I do believe someone in the anc has figured out how to play the financial markets. Invest in dollars, charge the FM, Rand tanks, sell dollars, withdraw charges, Rand recovers, repeat.
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If they are engaged in currency manipulation it is just a desirable byproduct of their attempt to get at the treasury. Zuma can no longer just remove Gordhan because others in the party will not allow it so he needs a bullet proof reason to do so this go round.
 
I don't know why I read these articles, they just make my blood boil.
 
friedpiggy said:
I have a sneaking suspicion that this whole yoyo affair with the minister of finance position is being done on purpose. My reasons for this are that I do believe someone in the anc has figured out how to play the financial markets. Invest in dollars, charge the FM, Rand tanks, sell dollars, withdraw charges, Rand recovers, repeat.
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It's also the only reason why I can think you would announce the action that is yet to be taken way in the future.

It's like saying you know who the serial killer is but you'll only arrest him a month from now and plastering it all over the media.
 
LazyLion said:
The Rand hasn't moved yet since this announcement though.
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Some of it is probably priced in and new movement will likely be when summons are served and dependent on how strong a case for his removal they [the charges] portent.
 
Hugh Glenister must be feeling vindicated right now.

The whole purpose of dissolving the Scorpions and replacing it with an anti-corruption unit under Zuma's direct control was so obviously flawed, it's hard to understand why Glenister's case was dismissed with costs. It cost him well over 3 million to mount that challenge, excluding his time, etc.
 
source: http://www.biznews.com/leadership/2016/11/04/zuma-abrahams-webber-wentzel/
please confirm, in writing, by no later than 16:00 Monday, 7 November 2016, that you will provisionally suspend Mr Abrahams, JP Pretorius SC and S Mzinyathi from their office, pending enquiries into their fitness to hold office as contemplated in section 12(6)(a), read with, inter alia, section 14(3), of the National Prosecuting Authority Act, 1998, and that you will forthwith institute such enquiries

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Should you fail to suspend Mr Abrahams and the Prosecutors and institute enquiries into their fitness for office by 7 November 2016, our clients will assume that you have decided not to suspend the NDPP and the Prosecutors and/or initiate such enquiries. Our clients may then, without further notice, seek to exercise their rights in law on an urgent basis.
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So tomorrow we find out what the Freedom Under Law NPC and the Helen Suzman Foundation have planned, because Zuma sure as fek will not do what they ask.
 
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