The high court in Pretoria on Thursday dismissed an application by former Sars deputy commissioner Ivan Pillay and two former colleagues, Johann van Loggerenberg and Andries Janse van Rensburg, for the case they are facing to be struck off the roll.
The charges against the men were laid in 2015 and the three were served with criminal summonses on March 8 last year requiring them to appear in court on April 9 last year.
The three argued that the delay of the criminal proceedings from April 9 last year to date had largely been due to the conduct of the prosecuting authority in refusing to provide them access to the full docket. Judge Jody Kollapen said there was a delay on the state’s part in dealing with the access request by the three men to get access to the docket.
"Considering then whether there was a delay, its duration and whether any person could be blamed for the delay, my view is that there was a delay, but that it was one of relatively short duration given the intention of the to make representations…"
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