Businesswoman Wendy Appelbaum sees vindication in the Constitutional Court’s ruling scotching Levitt's legal challenges BUSINESSWOMAN Wendy Appelbaum says the salacious contents of the damning Allan Greyling forensic report into Auction Alliance come as no surprise to her."Based on what I have read so far, I’m not at all surprised. Something was being fiercely protected," she said.Auction Alliance was probed by Greyling’s Accountants at Law (A@L) four years ago, and fares very badly in the report.Shortly after Greyling delivered the final report in 2012, the Hawks began to sniff around and, in August of the same year, carried out raids at Auction Alliance offices around the country, at the Cape Town home of founder Rael Levitt, as well as at the Johannesburg offices of Greyling, seizing bags and boxes of potential evidence.However, the case has not yet gone to trial as Levitt and the firm’s lawyers have brought one legal challenge after another in a fierce attempt to keep the arm of...

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