KZN Sars auditors jailed after being caught with R200,000 cash bribe

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KZN Sars auditors jailed after being caught with R200,000 cash bribe
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Pranesh Maharaj and Reuben Moodley were both caught red-handed with cash bribes of R100,000 in brown envelopes

Two former SA Revenue Service auditors were sentenced to three years in jail after they were caught trying to bribe a prominent KwaZulu-Natal businessman.Two former SA Revenue Service customs auditors will spend three years in jail for attempting to solicit a bribe from a prominent KwaZulu-Natal businessman"to make his tax problems disappear".

The two men, who both resigned from Sars during a disciplinary hearing last year, were sentenced in the Durban Regional Court on Thursday last week.

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