WORLDVIEW: SA’s very own “Operation Car Wash” gathers momentum

It beggars belief that the most prominent of those fingered in the #GuptaLeaks emails are trying to brazen it out. But their bravado is sure to rapidly evaporate as the evidence mounts.

When the emails first emerged, the noxious Gupta family's lawyer dismissed them as fake news. That fellow, the previously unknown but now rather prominent small time attorney Gert van der Merwe, has reportedly turned State Witness. So too, as the Sunday newspapers informed us, has former Mines Department DG Jacinto Rocha.

Using the Brett Kebble suicide/murder case as a guide, the law enforcement authorities can expect this trickle to turn into a flood. Once the cops were ready to actually lay charges, pretty much everyone who had been involved in the Kebble death except gangster boss Glenn Aglioti, appeared to have negotiated a deal.

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