Unbanked and crippled by Magnitsky sanctions, the Guptas are no ordinary perps. Having publicly refused to travel to South Africa since 2018, brothers Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta have long been labelled fugitives from justice.
By its very nature, South Africa’s quest to catch them is high-profile, as the alleged crimes, the money trail and their hideouts span foreign jurisdictions including Hong Kong, New York, the UAE, India and Uzbekistan. The written response attributed to Hawks head Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya also noted that, because their whereabouts are “known”, requests for mutual legal assistance and extradition have been submitted to the Department of Justice.pressed the SAPS for the dates of these remarkable developments, things became, presumably, operational and therefore could not be answered.
There is no indication that the various government departments are acting as a collective or working off one definitive blueprint or even that they are actively lobbying counterparts and contacts abroad. When pushed that the issue is whether the SSA – considering it has both a domestic and a foreign branch – has ever been asked to help to find the Guptas, the response was standard, with SSA spokesperson Mava Scott saying simply that “the law does not permit” operational issues to be discussed with third parties.went a step further to ask what the new minister has done to familiarise himself with efforts undertaken by the SSA to find the Guptas.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck 🦆 (for over 10 years...) It must be a f'ing duck... Let's have another enquiry to deteine that it's really a duck... Better yet, let's have justice.
Alleged? Lol
Business Business Latest News, Business Business Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: BusinessTechSA - 🏆 24. / 61 Read more »