KPMG has questions to answer in Gupta Leaks papers on R30m of dodgy wedding payments
DA finance spokesman David Maynier is to lay criminal charges against the Guptas and their associates for laundering public funds through Dubai. The charges are to be laid against Atul Gupta, Ajay Gupta, Rajesh Gupta, Ronica Ragavan and Kamal Vasram, in terms of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act and the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act. This follows revelations that public funds were used to pay for Vega Gupta and Aakash Jahajgarhia’s wedding at Sun City in 2013. The bill was paid by the Free State provincial government via a dairy farm outside Vrede. "Today it was revealed [by the Daily Maverick] that a total of $8,099,950 was transferred from "Estina", a 4,400ha farm outside Vrede funded by the Free State government, and then washed through a complex web of Gupta front companies, before being used, inter alia, to settle a $3,333,400 account for Vega Gupta and Aakash Jahajgarhia’s wedding, at Sun City in 2013," Maynier said. The sole director of Estina was Kam...
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