'During a follow-up meeting, they solicited a bribe of R200,000 from him 'to make his tax problems disappear'.'
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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