Guptas in a sentence

At the Guptas’ suggestion, Phosa sets up an overseas bank account for the ANC in Dubai, through which funds sourced by the Guptas would be channelled.

He dwelled on how Zuma and the Guptas brought this country to its knees.

Some Guptas are in Dubai, awaiting extradition to South Africa.

The police said on Thursday that the Red Notices, which indicate travellers like the Guptas are wanted fugitives in Interpol member nations, are still valid.

Delivering damning financial evidence, including Estina’s bank account records, Holden testified that the Guptas, through various offshore companies, allegedly ran a complex money-laundering enterprise to steal investments from the provincial government.

In recent years, we have been instrumental exposing the scandals of Nkandla, and were the first to blow the whistle on the Guptas and their deeper state capture project.

According to court documents, the Guptas siphoned $16 million from the operation.

EFF leader Julius Malema once detailed, in an interview with Tbo Touch, how Mbalula apparently cried when he received a phone call from the Guptas.

Gifted to Estina in 2013 under a free 99-year lease by the provincial agriculture department, the farm has been one of the most controversial transactions between the Guptas and a government entity.

In 2015, the then mining minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, flew to Switzerland to meet with Glencore’s chief executive officer, Ivan Glasenberg, to convince him to sell the assets to the Guptas.

Once one of South Africa’s wealthiest families, the Guptas left the country when the ruling African National Congress ousted Zuma from power early last year.

The unfinished temple the Guptas are building in Saharanpur.

When Hiuen Tsang visited Ayodhya (7th century AD), it had become an important religious centre under the Guptas.

Although the Guptas later sold their stake in Cutting Edge, a PowerPoint presentation contained in the Guptaleaks suggests they initially had big plans for the little IT company.

An anti-corruption watchdog meanwhile charges he allowed a wealthy Indian business family, the Guptas, undue influence over his government.

A report published in 2016 alleged that the Guptas had tried to influence the appointment of cabinet ministers and were unlawfully awarded state tenders.

Craven said there was no mention, for instance, of allegations against Zwane, that he planned the move with the Guptas on a trip to India in 2012 and subsequently had it approved by Magashule.

Evidently, Goyal and the Guptas’ mutual interests extended well beyond mining.

Finance minister Nhlanhla Nene says he has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to relieve him of his duties following public pressure over his testimony at the commission of inquiry into state capture at which he admitted to meetings with the Guptas.

Her office has come under fire for not including remedial actions against Magashule, the Guptas or then agriculture MEC in the province Mosebenzi Zwane, in her report, which was released earlier this year.