NATIONAL NEWS - Acting Hawks Head Lieutenant General Yolisa Matakata has told MPs the crime-fighting unit is not instructed by anybody on who to investigate or not.
Matakata faced suggestions from MPs and Treasury official Ismail Momoniat on Wednesday that inaction on the revelations contained in the leaked Gupta emails is because the Hawks lack the political will to do so.
Parliament’s finance, police, trade and industry and mineral resources committees met jointly on Wednesday to hear from the Hawks, the Reserve Bank, South African Revenue Service (Sars) and the Financial Intelligence Centre on what’s being done to stem the billions of rands believed to be flowing illegally out of the country.
African National Congress (ANC) parliamentarian Derek Hanekom was among the MPs to question the lack of progress in investigating allegations against the politically well-connected family.
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Posted on: 08:56 Thu, 31 August 2017
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