SA can be proud of the stature of some of its white-collar crooks: the Guptas, Markus Jooste of Steinhoff, and the crooked cabals of BEE tenderpreneurs and dodgy politicians.

It would be hard, though, to match the achievements of the late and not much-lamented US financier Bernie Madoff, a man whose Ponzi practices netted the lofty sum of $68bn. Yes, that’s billions of dollars. ..

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