The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (Irba) wants a chartered accountant who looted a deceased estate of more than R17m banned from practising for life, calling his conduct unbecoming of what is expected in the profession. 

A disciplinary hearing has found Durban-based Gareth Ducler Des Rauches guilty of having stolen from the estate of Durban socialite Roy Eckstein, who died in a scooter accident at his Camps Bay home in Cape Town in 2012...

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