Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has found Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan guilty of 'improper conduct' over his approval of then-deputy SA Revenue Services Commissioner Ivan Pillay's early retirement.
Most of the questions were related to the creation of the so-called SARS 'rogue unit'. She did not touch on this part of the investigation on Friday. One of the 11 questions in the subpoena related to the appointment of Pillay as deputy commissioner of the tax agency.
In early April Gordhan's spokesperson, Adrian Lackay, told Fin24 that the subpoena amounted to an"abuse of office" by Mkhwebane."We are investigating him to clear his name. We want him to assist us to do that," she said in late April. In a six-page statement that she read out and shared with the media, Mkhwebane said that Gordhan should not have approved the early retirement with full pension benefits of Pillay in 2010 and his re-employment on a fixed term contract. Gordhan was finance minister at the time.
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