Steinhoff’s Markus Jooste takes his life
He shot himself fatally a day after the FSCA fined him R475m for misleading the market
20 March 2024 - 14:17
UPDATED 20 March 2024 - 19:00
Former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste, accused of being the mastermind behind SA’s biggest fraud case, fatally shot himself on Thursday to avoid handing himself over for arrest, sources have confirmed.
Jooste was CEO of multinational furniture retailer Steinhoff when it created fictitious offshore shell companies to inflate profits and hide losses...
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