SARS raids Royal AM FC facility
Players from Royal AM FC, the football team owned by Shauwn Mkhize, watched in despair as trucks, brought by the taxman, seized goods and vehicles at a training facility outside Pietermaritzburg yesterday.
The Mercury reports that the secretive operation was aimed at businesswoman Mkhize, who is alleged to have committed tax offences.
According to sources, the visit and attachment did not only happen at Mkhize's properties, including her house in Sandton, Johannesburg, but SARS also swooped at her sister, Nozipho Ngubo’s, home in Nkanyezini outside Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday.
Approximately 10 trucks were involved in the removal of assets, including those that were suitable for loading furniture.
Other small and heavy-duty tow trucks were brought in to tow away vehicles, including heavy construction vehicles and a number of metal shipping containers.
SARS spokesperson Siphithi Sibeko said the visit to the properties was not a raid but an operation.
He said that SARS was carrying out an order of the KZN High Court (Durban).
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