PRETORIA, July (ANA) - Retired judge Robert Nugent on Monday, dismissed all requests made by advocate Dali Mpofu on behalf of his client, suspended South African Revenue Services (Sars) commissioner Tom Moyane.
On Friday, Moyane asked that the Nugent inquiry be discontinued or stayed‚ pending the outcome of his disciplinary inquiry and that all the evidence to be expunged from the record‚ as it was obtained under a huge cloud of unlawfulness and procedural unfairness.
He also demanded that Sars pays his legal fees, a demand which was denied by Nugent.
Nugent said the commission was constituted by President Cyril Ramaphosa and cannot dissolve itself.
During his ruling on Monday, Nugent described Mpofu's submissions as a disgrace.
Mpofu had also questioned the role of Professor Michael Katz in the inquiry citing that he is friends with the president and acted for him during the Marikana debacle.
He said Katz should be removed from the panel claiming that his judgement will be conflicted.
Nugent rejected Mpofu's argument and said Katz is not conflicted.
"Whether Katz and Ramaphosa encountered one another before doesn’t matter," Nugent said.
- African News Agency (ANA)
