Le Roux story a fairytale, court told
Publish date: 26 July 2007
Issue Number: 1876
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: In Court
Arguing against an application for a discharge at the end of the State case, prosecutor Bronwen Hendry told the Wynberg Regional Court in Cape Town yesterday that former national cricketer Garth le Roux had constructed a fairy tale around his failure to pay income tax and VAT.
Hendry said that Le Rouxs Markettime cc earned commissions totalling R1.9m on the sale of property at Fancourt Golf Estate on the outskirts of George, says a report on The Citizen site. These were amounts on which neither income tax nor value added tax had been paid. Nor had any of the other Le Roux companies, which received the benefit of the commissions, paid tax either. There was no evidence before the court that the tax treatment of the commissions was a mistake, and at this stage there was no innocent explanation before the court. She said the State opposed a discharge on all counts except one related to the creation of an allegedly false loan account. Le Roux and his accountant Deon van Heerden together face a total of 48 counts of fraud. Le Roux alone faces a further charge of contravening the exchange control regulations. Full report on The Citizen site
