Former McKinsey & Co partner Vikas Sagar, Gupta enterprise kingpin Salim Essa and longtime Gupta enterprise employee Ashok Narayan are not off the hook and they officially remain suspects wanted on criminal charges relating to an advisory contract linked to Transnet’s acquisition of locomotives.
Thousands of pages have been handed over to the lawyers of former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe and his co-accused in the R398.4m Transnet corruption case. The lawyers will return to court in April 2023 to indicate whether they require any additional information. If not, a pre-trial date will be se.
For five years, the researchers of Open Secrets have been working to expose people and institutions profiting from wrongdoing in South Africa. Their new book, ‘The Unaccountables’, aims to shine more light into the dark corners of South African society.
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.