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The fourth instalment of Judge Raymond Zondo’s report on State Capture adds the names of about 30 individuals to the list of people that the Zondo Commission recommends for potential prosecution by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). This brings the total number from the reports so far...
The Guptas’ State Capture project extended all the way to a remote corner of the Northern Cape, the Zondo Commission has found in its fourth instalment. The commission has recommended a criminal probe into a suspicious tender awarded to Scarlet Sky Investments 60 by state-owned diamond mining...
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has recommended that directors of state-owned diamond company Alexkor be investigated for fraud for appointing an unlicensed Gupta-linked company to sell its gems.
Scarlet Sky Investments had no cutting or polishing factory, no licence to buy rough diamonds, no licence to sell rough diamonds, no licence to cut and polish rough diamonds, no diamond trading house licence and no black economic empowerment certificate, which it only acquired after being awarded the tender
Evidence before the state capture commission suggests the Gupta family had an interest in Alexkor's diamond sales and aimed to use a repurposed the mine for their own coal interests.