On Monday NDPP Shaun Abrahams announced the NPA had decided to backtrack on charges of fraud and theft against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
Abrahams said that the three former Sars employees - Gordhan, Ivan Pillay and Oupa Magashula - the NPA intended to prosecute over Pillay's early retirement in 2009.
"I am satisfied that Mr Magashula, Mr Pillay and minister Gordhan did not have the requisite intention to act unlawfully,"he told reporters in Pretoria on Monday.