'State capture' kingpins going down: Bling king exposed

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'State capture' kingpins going down: Bling king exposed
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A trove of almost 300,000 e-mails obtained by the Sunday Times, the TrillianLeaks, shows how the personal fortune of Eric Wood ballooned just over two years after he met the Guptas.

A middle man at the centre of state capture, in which hundreds of millions of rands were stripped out of Eskom and Transnet, has been living the high life with a R35m Sandton mansion, a R25m game farm and a R20m helicopter.

A trove of almost 300,000 e-mails obtained by the Sunday Times, the #TrillianLeaks, shows how the personal fortune of Eric Wood, the boss of the Trillian group, ballooned just over two years after he met the Guptas and their lieutenant, Salim Essa...A subscription gives you full digital access to all Sunday Times content.Registered on the BusinessLIVE, Business Day, Financial Mail or Rand Daily Mail websites? Sign in with the same details.

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