Guptas’ shifty Dubai clinic project exposed
Funding linked to Free State, North West health tenders, with Jessie Duarte’s son-in-law named
The Gupta family was planning to set up a billion-dollar medical facility in Dubai with shareholders who were awarded lucrative tenders to provide provincial health departments with mobile clinics in the Free State and the North West. New revelations from the leaked Gupta e-mails have provided further evidence of the Guptas seeking ways to send funds earned from state contracts in SA to Dubai, where they have spent at least R350m on lavish properties for themselves and President Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane. An investigation by Business Day has established that a company named Cureva, which was later renamed Mediosa, was awarded a three-year contract in October 2015 by the Free State health department. The pilot project for the supply and running of two mobile medical clinics has a potential value of R50m a year, while the Gupta family and their associates planned for a national rollout worth about R1bn a year.The Gupta leaks showed cost calculation spreadsheets were sent to Tony Gupt...
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