SOUTH Africa’s justice minister insists members of the Gupta family, who have been implicated in looting billions of rand from state coffers, will be extradited from Dubai and be forced to explain their actions.
“There is no other way, they have to come back and account,” Ronald Lamola said in an interview last week.
“We will follow all the protocols and we will do whatever it takes to get them back here.”
Businessmen Atul, Rajesh and Ajay Gupta built up a business empire with interests ranging from mining to media in South Africa, while forging close relationships with top politicians, including former President Jacob Zuma.
A judicial panel that’s spent almost four years investigating graft during Zuma’s rule found the brothers exploited those relationships to have allies appointed to key posts in state companies and secure illicit contracts. They all deny wrongdoing.
The Guptas fled to Dubai shortly before South
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