Sixteen billion, two hundred and seventeen million, seven hundred and ninety-three thousand, forty-seven rand and 18 cents.
This is the total amount earned by the Gupta Enterprise from State Capture, starting with its early scams in the Free State in 2011, and then spreading through various organs of State, but, most notably, Eskom and Transnet.
Like the cost of State Capture, this figure was calculated simply. I worked with the Commission to identify every contract or payment that was made to the Gupta enterprise where there was an obvious irregularity, wrong-doing or conflict of interest.
Taking this approach means that I excluded those amounts paid to the Gupta enterprise by the State where there was no obvious irregularity. For example, the Commission identified that Sahara the Guptas’ flagship IT company was paid R102-million by the State. But a lack of evidence meant that this could not be definitively deemed irregular, and was thus excluded.