Stories of note Bytes from the digital world Far from giving Trillian Capital the whitewash its owner and "fourth Gupta brother" Salim Essa presumably thought he was paying for, advocate Geoff Budlender’s inquiry brought to light that Trillian skimmed R266m from Eskom for no services rendered and paid R160m to the Guptas via their shared bank, Baroda. Trillian management refused to answer Budlender’s questions about a mysterious Dubai-based company called E Gateway Global Consultants. Budlender asked about E Gateway because it concerned McKinsey so much, the US firm refused to use Trillian as a subcontractor. Now investigators of the leaked Gupta e-mails have dubbed E Gateway the Guptas’ Dubai laundromat. In my opinion Matters of debate Brothers Atul, Ajay and Rajesh Gupta will be conspicuously absent from this weekend’s ANC national party conference, even though they are this country’s most influential people, writes Carol Paton. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is resolutely stick...
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