This comes on the cusp of an announcement by Moody's on Friday this week over whether SA's investment status would be downgraded.
SARS on Monday issued a statement saying that Moyane was being villified unnecessarily by the media.
Moyane last week announced the resignation of Makwakwa‚ after the SARS commissioner had shielded him for over a year. Moyane was presented with a Financial Intelligence Centre report into suspicious and unusual transactions into Makwakwa's personal bank accounts and that of his partner Kelly-Anne Elskie in May 2016.
After a year-long investigation by international law firm Hogan Lovells‚ Makwakwa was cleared of all charges and returned to work after being suspended for over a year in December last year.
Makwakwa resigned last week after it was revealed that one of the companies channelling money into his personal bank accounts was appointed as a debt collector by SARS.
- BusinessLIVE