SA files formal extradition request for Gupta brothers - The case for their surrender includes charges stemming from the Nulane and the Estina scams, National Prosecuting Authority director Shamila Batohi said
scams in which the Free State government was defrauded of R225-million, justice minister Ronald Lamola confirmed today.
Lamola confirmed that warrants were also issued for the Gupta brothers in the investigation into the Estina scandal, where it is alleged that money looted from a dairy farm project in Vrede was used to fund a lavish family wedding at Sun City. The case was previously enrolled but provisionally withdrawn in 2018 after the state encountered several obstacles, among them a lack of cooperation from Emirati authorities on bank transactions reflecting allegedly illicit money flows.Batohi said the National Prosecuting Authority would not enrol a matter if it were not satisfied that it stood a reasonable chance of success in court.
“Thereafter, the attorney general will submit the matter to the minister of justice in the UAE for the final decision,” she said. “We understand that it could take a couple of months to finalise.”When Batohi was asked whether she believed the NPA had a good chance of securing the conviction of the two brothers in the Nulane case she replied that it would not have enrolled the matter if it did not believe it had a reasonable prospect of success.
She termed the submission of the request “an important milestone in the NPA’s commitment to hold accountable the perpetrators of state capture”.
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