MEDIA STATEMENT
1 Our client, Ivan Pillay, notes the publication of a report by the Public Protector in regard to his retirement during 2010.
2 On Tuesday this week Mr Pillay responded in detail, in the form of a sworn affidavit, to a notice sent to him by the Public Protector setting out her intended findings. In her published report the Public Protector has dismissed Mr Pillay’s detailed response out of hand.
3 Other implicated parties - Minister Pravin Gordhan and former SARS commissioner, Mr Oupa Magashula - also submitted their detailed rebuttals to the Public Protector in the past few days. Their contentions were similarly rejected out of hand by the Public Protector.
4 Mr Pillay has requested us to publicly release his affidavit which was submitted to the Public Protector. For ease of reference that is attached.
5 It is well documented that the issue of Mr Pillay's pension pay-out has been the subject of several processes and investigations that have all found nothing untoward with it at all. Among these are: