{"id":11466,"date":"2012-06-14T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/state-ordered-to-give-details-in-trial\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:16:02","slug":"state-ordered-to-give-details-in-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/state-ordered-to-give-details-in-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"State ordered to give details in trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \t                                <!-- Main Editorial Image --><br \/>\n                    \t\t\t      \t\t\t                                      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/9ae65_4147094561.jpg\" alt=\"2243587\" class=\"pics\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"captions_credit_article\">INLSA<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">Sbu and Shauwn Mpisane relax at a Durban hotel after a day in the Durban Magistrates Court where Shauwn is on trial for tax fraud PICTURE: DOCTOR NGCOBO<\/p>\n<p class=\"captions\">\n<p class=\"related_articles\">Related Stories<\/p>\n<ul class=\"menu_tab_lists_related\">\n<li><a class=\"related_articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za:80\/mercury\/threats-over-press-photos-of-mpisane-1.1318920\">Threats over press photos of Mpisane<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--PSTYLE=WT Web Text--><\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The state has been forced to show its hand to tax-fraud accused Shauwn Mpisane and give her more details of the 188 tax fraud charges she faces before her trial starts tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Mpisane and her close corporation Zikhulise Cleaning, Maintenance and Transport scored this victory against the State yesterday, the effect of which, legal sources say, is that it reduces the number of skittles she has to knock down during the trial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Mpisane pulled in top advocate Wim Trengove SC to argue that neither the charge sheet nor the docket spelt out the \u201cwho, what, where and how\u201d of the charges. This was essential, he said, for Mpisane to prepare and put up a proper defence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Yesterday, in his ruling, presiding magistrate Blessing Msani said the case had \u201cpeculiar features\u201d and was technical in nature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cThe accused was running a big enterprise\u2026 she would have employed people to help her. It is alleged she acted in common purpose with some of them, and these relationships will come out during the trial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cBut the question she is seeking to establish is the role the State is alleging she played. She wants to know what the State says she did,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The magistrate said the State\u2019s argument that the information required was in the docket was unfair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cIn my experience, police statements do not mean as much to an accused person as they do to a prosecutor who has had the benefit of discussing the statements and interviewing the witnesses.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">Full picture <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">\u201cAn accused person will not get a full picture of what they will say at trial\u2026.to wade through a docket looking for what the State may rely upon in evidence is too much to ask.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">He also criticised the State for labelling Mpisane\u2019s request for further particulars as a \u201cfishing expedition\u201d, saying her lawyers would not do that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">The essence of the charges is that Mpisane made fraudulent misrepresentations regarding the annual financial statements and income tax return for the year ending February 2008, reflecting cash purchases valued at R5 million in order to minimise the profit and pay less tax.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"arcticle_text\">In order to achieve this, it is alleged she submitted forged invoices to Sars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INLSA Sbu and Shauwn Mpisane relax at a Durban hotel after a day in the Durban Magistrates Court where Shauwn is on trial for tax fraud PICTURE: DOCTOR NGCOBO Related Stories Threats over press photos of Mpisane The state has been forced to show its hand to tax-fraud accused Shauwn Mpisane and give her more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8275,953,2143],"class_list":{"0":"post-11466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-newspaper","9":"tag-the-mercury","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}