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Estina dairy farm

Gupta associates granted bail in Estina fraud case

By Shamiela Fisher

On Tuesday, Kamal Vasram and Saliesh Indurjeeth were granted bail in the Pretoria Regional Court after they were arrested the night before.

  • Picture: SAPS/facebook.com

    2 Gupta associates linked to Estina dairy project granted bail following arrest

    Kamal Vasram and Saliesh Indurjeeth were arrested on Monday night and appeared in court on Tuesday morning.

    110 days ago
  • FILE: Atul Gupta at a 'New Age' Business Briefing in Port Elizabeth. Picture: GCIS.

    Net closing on Guptas as UAE-SA extradition treaty set to kick in

    Interpol on Monday released a so-called red notice against Atul and Rajesh Gupta, the global crime-fighting body's most severe alert to law enforcement around the world.

    321 days ago
  • FILE: National Prosecuting Authority offices in Pretoria. Picture: Eyewitness News

    NPA eager for Estina dairy farm trial to get under way

    The NPA's Investigating Directorate spokesperson Sindisiwe Seboka said that they had completed their investigations and they would be ready to hand over their full docket to the defence team when all the suspects appeared in court in early July.

    347 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: SAPS.

    High-profile businessman, 3 ex-FS gov staff arrested for Vrede farm corruption

    The group were arrested in the Free State, Gauteng and Mpumalanga on Wednesday.

    354 days ago
  • Zwane denies any knowledge of Estina involvement in failed Vrede dairy farm project

    Former Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane told the Zondo Commission that he did not know that the Free State government had contracted a Gupta-linked company in the failed Free State dairy farm project. It is alleged that almost R200 million meant for emerging black farmers in Vrede, in the Free State, flowed to Estina. Zwane appeared at the Zondo Commission on 13 May 2021.

    373 days ago
  • Former Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane takes the oath at the state capture commission on 13 May 2021. Picture: YouTube screengrab/SABC.

    Zondo Inquiry: Was FS cabinet misled on failed Vrede farm project funding?

    Mosebenzi Zwane told the State Capture Commission that a provincial government exco had given the project the green light, but evidence leader Advocate Pule Seleka wanted to know if it wasn’t misled.

    373 days ago
  • Former Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane takes the oath at the state capture commission on 13 May 2021. Picture: YouTube screengrab/SABC.

    Zwane: I wasn't aware that my flight to India was paid for by Guptas

    Former Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said it was just a coincidence that he and the choir would travel on the same flight that the Guptas had paid for.

    374 days ago
  • FILE: A screenshot of Mosebenzi Zwane appearing before the state capture commission on 27 April 2021. Picture: SABCNews/Youtube.

    WATCH LIVE: Zondo Inquiry hears more evidence from Mosebenzi Zwane

    The state capture commission is hearing evidence on Estina dairy farm project from former Minister of Mineral Resources Mosebenzi Zwane on Thursday.

    374 days ago
  • A screengrab of Paul Holden, a researcher at Shadow World Investigations, testifying at the state capture commission on 3 December 2020. Picture: SABC Digital News/YouTube

    Inexperienced Gupta associate was paid over R3m in Estina farm money - Holden

    Paul Holden said some of the R280 million that was paid by the Free State to Estina was used to raise loans offshore and was only returned to buy dairy equipment when there was an uproar.

    534 days ago
  • A screengrab of Paul Holden, a researcher at Shadow World Investigations, testifying at the state capture commission on 3 December 2020. Picture: SABC Digital News/YouTube

    'Firms such as Estina paid millions of dollars to Gupta offshore companies'

    A researcher at a forensic investigator on Thursday testified at the state capture commission about the Estina Dairy Farm offshore money flows, some of which he said were money laundering.

    535 days ago
  • Paul Edward Holden at the state capture commission of inquiry on 3 December 2020. Picture: YouTube screengrab.

    WATCH LIVE: State capture inquiry hears evidence on Estina offshore money flows

    The commission is hearing testimony of Estina Dairy Farm offshore money flows from a researcher employed by Shadow World Investigations, London, Paul Edward Holden.

    535 days ago
  • Free State ANC members protest at the party's Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on 19 October 2020. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN

    ANC FS members call for Magashule to account for corruption allegations

    They protested outside Luthuli House on Monday calling on the party to take action against officials implicated in corruption.

    579 days ago
  • ‘We’re heartbroken, ANC's corrupt must pay’: beneficiaries of failed FS projects

    Members of the ANC in the Free State marched to party headquarters at Luthuli House on 19 October 2020. The protesters demanded that those responsible for corruption in the asbestos project and the Estina Dairy Farm be held accountable.

    579 days ago
  • Free State ANC members protest at the party's Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on 19 October 2020. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN

    FS ANC members want action against those implicated in Estina, asbestos projects

    They protested outside the ANC’s headquarters at Luthuli House in Joburg and handed over a memorandum of demands to the national working committee (NWC).

    580 days ago
  • A screenshot of former Free State Agriculture chief financial officer (CFO) Seipati Dlamini. Picture: @SABCDigitalNews/YouTube

    Zondo surprised by witness' response to questions of due diligence on Estina

    Seipati Dlamini was the custodian of finances when then provincial Agriculture MEC Mosebenzi Zwane and department HOD Peter Thabethe bulldozed their way into bringing in the Gupta-linked Estina to run the Vrede Dairy Farm project.

    626 days ago
  • A screenshot of former Free State Agriculture chief financial officer (CFO) Seipati Dlamini. Picture: @SABCDigitalNews/YouTube

    Former FS Agri CFO: I didn’t ask if Paras was qualified to deliver Estina farm

    Evidence leader advocate Leah Cabashe asked Dlamini if she had notified Estina that the Agriculture Department had already bought equipment that it could use but she said it wasn’t her responsibility.

    627 days ago
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    5 FS govt officials arrested over corruption, fraud worth R245m granted bail

    National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Sipho Ngwema said that the suspects were granted R10,000 bail each.

    642 days ago
  • The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, also called the Hawks, is responsible for combating, investigating and preventing national priority crimes.

    Hawks arrest 5 former and current FS govt officials for fraud, corruption

    The investigating unit said that those handcuffed included a former head of a department and a retired official over money laundering of over R244 million.

    643 days ago
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