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Zondo told of R49bn in 'tainted' contracts, with Gupta family scoring Image: Veli Nhlapo The state may have paid more than R49bn in contracts tainted by state capture, which saw the Gupta family score handsomely. That was the testimony of Paul Holden, speaking at the Zondo commission on Monday about money flows to Gupta-linked companies as a result of state capture. Holden is a London-based researcher who is a co-founder — together with former ANC MP and arms deal whistle-blower Andrew Feinstein — of Shadow World Investigations. He detailed transactions which ended up with t...

Who Goes From President to Prisoner? Copy link By Matthew Blackman, Nick Dall and Charu Sudan Kasturi Copy link March2, 2021 Flamboyant French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy always loved “to be at the center of the action,” former U.S. President Barack Obama wrote in his memoir A Promised Land. For once, Sarkozy won’t be happy to find himself in the spotlight, after a court sentenced him to jail on Monday for trying to bribe a judge in 2014. While Sarkozy will appeal the ruling and can remain free in the meantime — though he will return to court this month on separate charges of evadi...

For several years, the Republic of the Congo has been quietly buying an arsenal from Azerbaijan, with the latest cache arriving before next month’s election

THE DEAD BODY PROBLEM. Lin Qi, producer of the upcoming The Hollywood Reporter. Lin Qi, the chairman and CEO of Yoozoo Group who was hospitalized after having been poisoned on Dec. 16, has died. The Chinese company confirmed that Lin died on Christmas Day. He was 39. On Wednesday evening in China, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau had announced that Lin was receiving treatment after being poisoned and that a Yoozoo coworker of Lin’s, surnamed Xu, had been apprehended amid an investigation. The statement read: “At 5 p.m. on Dec. 17, 2020, the police received a call from a hospital reg...

THE DEAD BODY PROBLEM. Lin Qi, producer of the upcoming The Hollywood Reporter. Lin Qi, the chairman and CEO of Yoozoo Group who was hospitalized after having been poisoned on Dec. 16, has died. The Chinese company confirmed that Lin died on Christmas Day. He was 39. On Wednesday evening in China, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau had announced that Lin was receiving treatment after being poisoned and that a Yoozoo coworker of Lin’s, surnamed Xu, had been apprehended amid an investigation. The statement read: “At 5 p.m. on Dec. 17, 2020, the police received a call from a hospital reg...