Senior journalist Ranjeni Munusamy says a close family friend paid R143,000 to settle her car loan for her BMW convertible, but she only found out last week that the money came via Atlantis Motors, a company linked to a Hawks investigation into crime intelligence.

Munusamy said that Basheer Ahmed Abdool — who she grew up with in Dannhauser, KwaZulu-Natal, and regarded as a “brother” — had offered to pay off the car when she was experiencing financial difficulties...

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