Best of 2019: HSBC joins dots from Gupta-friendly public protector to Chinese rail company kickbacks
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been snitched on by global banking giant HSBC for having financial links to the infamous Gupta family.
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Lord Peter Hain: Why Guptas, KPMG and HSBC bosses go unpunished for state capture
Peter Hain has shared, with the Zondo Commission, a detailed list of those who have enabled corruption and provides suggestions to bring the perpetrators to book.
🔒 Gupta sanctions put state capture specialists KPMG, PwC, McKinsey back in spotlight
As tangible action against state capture masterminds, the Gupta brothers and Salim Essa, is taken by US authorities, the world spotlight is back on corporations that have aided and abetted the corrupt in South Africa.
NAILED! US imposes sanctions on Gupta brothers, Essa for SA corruption
The world just got smaller for former president Jacob Zuma’s friends – the Gupta brothers and their lieutenant, Salim Essa – as the US imposed sanctions on them for corruption and stealing state assets.
EXPLOSIVE evidence! Here’s where Trillian boss Eric Wood hid billions for Guptas
Eric Wood’s financial links with the Zuma and Gupta families appear to run much deeper, though, than irregular trading, according to the OCCRP.
Zuma at Zondo – a blow by blow account of Day One
Former South African President Jacob Zuma is appearing before a judicial panel for the first time to answer accusations that he consented to and benefited from widespread looting during his nine-year rule.
Manning the evidential ramparts – Zondo Commission’s first 100 days
This multi-facetted analysis of the first 100 days of the Zondo Commission concludes that it is doing the job admirably, seemingly at treacle-like speed with those implicated cleverly playing a waiting game, but nevertheless changing the political landscape forever.
Shareholder steamrollered in dodgy Transnet deal
A Gupta-linked middleman company slipped into a Transnet deal and spiked the price of relocating a locomotive-manufacturing venue from Gauteng to Durban from a mere R9.7m to about R700m.
Transnet’s new execs out to nab looters of billions
The good news is that the train crew has been sacked and Transnet is back in the driver’s cab, the passenger trucks filled with sheriffs helping hunt down the culprits.
🔒 Nene’s firing – Gupta-linked company made millions
Pensioner funds at Transnet were used by the Gupta-linked Regiments Capital in 2015 to fund insider trading – based on the predicted firing of Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene.