The order marks the end of the NPA’s case to seize Optimum assets on the grounds that the Gupta-owned Tegeta Resources bought it with the proceeds of crime in 2016.
Sensational claims that go to the heart of state capture for the first time detail how a Gupta-linked company knew of the axing of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene two months before it happened - and scored millions from state-owned companies for work it never did. A whistleblower's affidavit to former public protector Thuli Madonsela lays bare how Trillian CEO Eric Wood briefed some of the company's top executives about Nene's axing during a meeting at its Melrose Arch offices in October .
The company made a generous payment towards ANC election expenses in 2016. Now liquidators want paperwork from the lawyer whose trust account the funds were channelled through.