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The Financial Sector Conduct Authority is investigating a "number of persons" involved in the management of Steinhoff prior to December 2017 to find out if anyone knowingly allowed false or misleading financial statements to be published.
As part of the ongoing probe, the financial market regulator is questioning Steinhoff's former CEO Markus Jooste.
PwC found in 2019 that a tight-knit group of Steinhoff executives used "fictitious and/or irregular transactions" to inflate the group's profits and assets by about €6.5 billion between the 2009 and 2017 financial years.
South Africa's financial market regulator is questioning former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste, and others, as part of a probe into whether anyone at the company knowingly published false or misleading financial information prior to 2017 - an offence under the Financial Markets Act.