UK impose sanctions against Gupta brothers
By Kitty Donaldson
(Bloomberg) – UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will impose sanctions against three Gupta brothers who were previously accused of being in a corrupt relationship with former South African President Jacob Zuma.
Ajay, Atul, and Rajesh “Tony” Gupta are among 22 people from six countries who face restrictions ranging from visa bans to asset freezes after the U.K. expanded its sanctions regime to include corruption for the first time. The Guptas, who no longer live in South Africa, have denied wrongdoing.
The three men, and an associate Salim Essa, were “at the heart of a long-running process of corruption in South Africa which caused significant damage to its economy,” the Foreign Office said in a statement.
Lavish gifts, a BMW and fights over appointments: Norma Mngoma spills the beans at Zondo Commission
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DURBAN - Norma Mngoma, estranged wife of former SA Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba, made some startling revelations during her appearance at the Zondo Commission yesterday.
Mngoma claimed that the Gupta s had a hand, influencing matters of appointments at State-Owned Enterprises and alleged that Ajay Gupta and Gigaba would often get into arguments over appointments.
She said most of the time at Transnet, it would be people that Gupta felt needed to be appointed or needed to leave. They would argue about it because Malusi had his own favourites while Ajay had his, she said.
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Boris Johnson has been accused of presiding over a failure of British diplomacy amid fears Iran will send detained aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe back to jail.
The British-Iranian citizen was on Monday handed a one-year sentence and is banned from leaving the country for a further year after being found guilty of “propaganda against the system”.
Her lawyer said the charge stemmed from her attendance at a 2009 protest outside Iran’s embassy in London.
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Her husband Richard Ratcliffe labelled his wife s treatment torture and on Tuesday warned the government needed to take a tougher line with Iran or her release would likely be delayed until 2023.
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