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    Rogue: The Inside Story of SARS's Elite Crime-busting Unit

    By Johann van Loggerenberg and Adrian Lackay

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    The story of a ‘rogue unit’ operating within the South African Revenue Service (SARS) became entrenched in the public mind following a succession of sensational reports published by the Sunday Times in 2014. The unit, the reports claimed, had carried out a series of illegal spook operations: they had spied on President Jacob Zuma, run a brothel, illegally bought spyware and entered into unlawful tax settlements.

    In a plot of Machiavellian proportions, head of the elite crime-busting unit Johann van Loggerenberg and many of SARS’s top management were forced to resign. Van Loggerenberg’s select team of investigators, with their impeccable track record of busting high-level financial fraudsters and nailing tax criminals, lost not only their careers but also their reputations.
    Now, in this extraordinary account, they finally get to put the record straight and the rumours to rest: there was no ‘rogue unit’. The public had been deceived, seemingly by powers conspiring to capture SARS for their own ends.

    Shooting down the allegations he has faced one by one, Van Loggerenberg tells the story of what really happened inside SARS, revealing details of some of the unit’s actual investigations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonathan Ball Publishers
    Release dateSep 19, 2016
    ISBN9781868427413
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    Rogue: The Inside Story of SARS's Elite Crime-busting Unit
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    Johann van Loggerenberg

    Johann van Loggerenberg is the author of 'Death and Taxes' and co-author with Adrian Lackay of the bestselling 'Rogue: The Inside Story of SARS’s Elite Crime-busting Unit'. He joined SARS in 1998 and ultimately led some of its investigations units until he resigned in 2015 when he became a target with former SARS boss Ivan Pillay and others of various plots to capture and disable the revenue service. Today Van Loggerenberg is a private tax practitioner and advisory consultant.

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