Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has “rejected with contempt” allegations that she received $5,000 (about R70,000) from a Gupta-linked account, describing it as “malicious and defamatory.”
The allegation is contained in a report by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) published Tuesday.
The report alleged that banking multinational HSBC flagged the transfer to Mkhwebane’s First National Bank (FNB) account in 2014 from an account in an HSBC subsidiary bank in Hong Kong.
The flag on Mkhwebane’s alleged funds receipt was part of a highly restricted internal HSBC investigation that sought to identify a network of Gupta-linked accounts and companies around the world.
The Guptas are at the center of South Africa’s Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, which is currently holding hearings on the family’s role in grand corruption during former President Jacob Zuma’s time in office from 2009 to 2018.
In a statement to
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