A cash settlement with former Gupta business associate’s Templar Capital and Liberty Coal has the backing of creditors, labour and business rescuers. A cash settlement with former Gupta business associates Templar Capital and Liberty Coal has the backing of creditors, labour and business rescue.
Salim Essa, erstwhile Gupta enterprise kingpin, will have to cough up R5m as security if he wants the State Attorney to entertain his application for a court review of the State Capture commission’s report.
South Africa has upped the ante on State Capture prosecutions. Gupta fingerprints are all over the proverbial State Capture crime scene. But for now, it is their henchmen, enablers and former business partners taking the rap. South Africa has upped the ante on State Capture prosecutions. Gupta.
Under pressure to pay Eskom back nearly R600-million following a tainted deal, a broke Trillian Capital Partners says that Salim Essa, the Gupta family’s one-time chief lieutenant, left hundreds of millions of rand in unpaid ‘shareholder loans’ that he had extracted from the company.