A host of companies linked to the controversial Gupta brothers received a total of over 49 billion rands in irregular payments from a number of parastatal corporations, a witness has claimed at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.
Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta have been accused of siphoning billions of rands from state-owned corporations through their alleged closeness to former South African president Jacob Zuma.
Paul Edward Holden, a researcher with the London-based Shadow World Investigations, explained that hundreds of financial transactions and bank statements were studied to arrive at the detailed conclusions about the sources of funds and the companies used in the money laundering that are listed in the report.