In April 2022, Free State High Court Judge Nompumelelo Gusha discharged seven accused including former government officials, and service providers, and acquitted one suspect of all charges levelled.
The lawyers representing the accused, including former officials of the Free State Agriculture Department, who allegedly paid millions of rands to the so-called Gupta Lieutenant Iqbal Sharma's Nula.
NPA's Thesele Rankuoatsana gave a two-day testimony in court into the money flow between the Gupta associate's banking accounts, and how millions of rands were transferred from one banking account .
This emerged during the testimony of a state witness, Thesele Rankuotsana, who is the National Prosecuting Authority's senior financial investigator officer and former Hawks commercial crime invest.