Berning tells the Guptas they’re not in hot water
BRUCE'S LIST: Sticking to the script: The Hawks clear the Guptas
The Hawks assure the family they’re not being investigated
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. The nice man who runs the Hawks, SA’s supposed priority crimes unit, seems to have written a soothing letter to the Gupta family assuring them that in no way are they being investigated for anything. Gen Berning Ntlemeza wrote the letter last week, so the Guptas were able to include it in their affidavit opposing finance minister Pravin Gordhan’s appeal to the courts that the Guptas be prevented from pestering him to get the country’s big banks to start doing business with them again. Gordhan, in seeking a declaration from the court, supplied it with a list of transactions totalling nearly R7bn by Gupta companies which treasury’s Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) had flagged as suspicious. The story is interesting because the transactions listed by Gordhan may have looked suspicious to the FIC but they may also have been legitimate. As the issue at hand is ultimately the closure last year by all the country’s major banks of their Gupta acco...
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