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Former Steinhoff chief executive officer Markus Jooste in Parliament on 5 September 2018. Picture: EWN

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Ex-Steinhoff CEO Jooste charged in Germany over accounting violations - report

By Ray White

Bloomberg said that the indictment covered accounting violations in Germany, with Jooste's German lawyer responding by calling the allegations inaccurate.

  • Former Steinhoff chief executive officer Markus Jooste in Parliament on 5 September 2018. Picture: EWN

    Ex-Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste & 3 others fined R241m for insider trading

    In a statement, the FSCA said the administrative penalty followed an investigation that found Jooste was privy to Steinhoff-related 'inside info' before the company’s shares tanked.

    173 days ago
  • Steinhoff's offices in Stellenbosch. Picture: Supplied.

    PIC says it needs the PwC report on Steinhoff to act against directors

    The state-run asset manager has told Parliament it will file court papers “soon” in a bid to compel Steinhoff to hand over the report. Steinhoff commissioned PwC to investigate once the extent of the scandal became known.

    505 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied.

    PIC takes legal steps to force Steinhoff to handover PwC report

    Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance has been told that the PIC believes the report is critical for it to pursue directors fingered in the scandal.

    505 days ago
  • Maimane explains why it took DA a few months to return Steinhoff donor car

    Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane explains why it took months to return a donor vehicle from Steinhoff in the wake of the company's accounting scandal.

    567 days ago
  • Maimane: I never demanded the use of Steinhoff donor vehicle

    DA leader Mmusi Maimane talks about the furore surrounding his use of a vehicle donated to the party by Steinhoff's former CEO Markus Jooste.

    567 days ago
  • DA leader Mmusi Maimane at Dobsonville Stadium on 4 May 2019 for the party’s final election rally. Picture: Kayleen Morgan /EWN

    Maimane ready to fight for political life, DA values

    Mmusi Maimane believes some DA leaders are at odds with him because of the ideals he has pushed for in the party.

    567 days ago
  • FILE: DA leader Mmusi Maimane. Picture: EWN

    Maimane: Attacks on my integrity by some who want to reclaim old DA

    Mmusi Maimane said some leaders in the DA were trying to plant false information about him to attack his integrity.

    567 days ago
  • DA leader Mmusi Maimane. Picture: @Our_DA/Twitter

    Waters: DA FedEx 'not made aware' of Maimane car donated by Markus Jooste

    According to the ‘Rapport’, DA leader Mmusi Maimane drove a car that was rented and paid for by Markus Jooste ahead of the 2016 local government elections.

    570 days ago
  • FILE: DA leader Mmusi Maimane. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    DA's Waters: Maimane must explain car, housing allegations

    Party leader Mmusi Maimane has been accused of driving a rental vehicle sponsored by disgraced businessperson Markus Jooste and paid for by Steinhoff ahead of the 2016 elections.

    570 days ago
  • DA leader Mmusi Maimane at Dobsonville Stadium on 4 May 2019 for the party’s final election rally. Picture: Kayleen Morgan /EWN

    Maimane responds to reports about car 'donated' by Markus Jooste

    Maimane has been accused of driving a vehicle gifted by disgraced businessman Markus Jooste.

    570 days ago
  • Former Steinhoff chief executive officer Markus Jooste in Parliament on 5 September 2018. Picture: EWN

    Steinhoff seeks to recoup payments paid to former CEO

    The retailer’s CEO in March told lawmakers that Jooste, la Grange, along with six other people, were identified by an investigation as players in inflating Steinhoff profits and asset values over several years.

    659 days ago
  • FILE: Former Steinhoff CFO Ben la Grange with his senior counsel, John Dickerson, appear in Parliament on 29 August 2018. Picture: Gaye Davis/EWN

    Ben la Grange cooperates with authorities on investigations into Steinhoff

    La Grange was suspended last August but remains on the Steinhoff payroll as a consultant.

    763 days ago
  • FILE: Former Steinhoff chief executive officer Markus Jooste appears at Parliament to answer questions from a joint sitting of the finance and other committees on 5 September 2018. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    Markus Jooste must be prosecuted for role in Steinhoff scandal, say MPs

    Members of Parliament want Jooste prosecuted for his role in the country’s biggest corporate scandal to date and for him and his associates to be jailed as soon as possible.

    763 days ago
  • FILE: Steinhoff’s Heather Sonn. Picture: www.africaleadership.net

    Steinhoff: Implicated executives will be held accountable

    Steinhoff was on Tuesday forced by four parliamentary committees to reveal the names of its former executives, including disgraced former CEO Markus Jooste and four other men outside Steinhoff, implicated by PwC’s forensic investigation into the scandal.

    763 days ago
  • FILE: Former Steinhoff chief executive officer Markus Jooste appears at Parliament to answer questions from a joint sitting of the finance and other committees on 5 September 2018. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    Steinhoff bosses forced by MPs to reveal names of execs implicated in PwC report

    Disgraced former CEO Markus Jooste’s name is among them, along with former chief financial officer Ben la Grange and former executives Dirk Schreiber and Stehan Grobler.

    764 days ago
  • FILE: Former Steinhoff chief executive officer Markus Jooste appears at Parliament to answer questions from a joint sitting of the finance and other committees on 5 September 2018. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    Saftu calls on NPA to prosecute former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste

    Saftu has joined calls for the prosecution of former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste after the Government Employees Pension Fund had to write off massive investments as a result of the collapse of Steinhoff’s share price last year.

    868 days ago
  • Louis du Preez has been appointed as new CEO at Steinhoff. Picture: www.steinhoffinternational.com

    Steinhoff appoints Louis du Preez as new permanent CEO, shares soar

    Du Preez will replace acting CEO Danie van der Merwe who will step down at the end of December.

    884 days ago
  • FILE: Former Steinhoff chief executive officer Markus Jooste is appearing at Parliament to answer questions from a joint sitting of the finance and other committees on 5 September 2018. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN

    [LISTEN] 'History of dodgy business dealings by Steinhoff'

    Talk Radio 702 host Eusebius McKaiser speaks to financial journalist Warren Thompson who explains the long history of dodgy business dealings at Steinhoff.

    891 days ago
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