Salim Aziz Essa

The third brother Ajay Gupta and Gupta associate Salim Essa appear to have evaded law enforcement for now but the Guptas also faced raids on various properties in India and were investigated for money-laundering in that country too...

Two of the three brothers Atul and Rajesh were charged with various counts of fraud and money-laundering on 2 June along with their kingpin South African collaborator Salim Essa...

They include: former Chief Financial Officer Anoj Singh Gupta associate Salim Essa former Defence Minister Siphiwe Nyanda former Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba and former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe...

Arrests may follow and the Gupta brothers – Atul Ajay and Rajesh – and their associate Salim Aziz Essa are also in the SIU's sights over state capture...

Late last year the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the Gupta brothers and their business partner Salim Essa forbidding them to do business in the US and with US businesses over corruption in South Africa...

The civil society watchdog OUTA – Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse – brought a private prosecution against Mantsha and 15 other officials in September last year alleging corruption in the deal which set up Denel India with South African businessman and Gupta associate Salim Essa...

However investigations into the Guptas' companies are speeding up and there are reports that one of their key associates Salim Essa has turned state's evidence and will testify at the Eskom parliamentary hearings (AC Vol 59 No 1 Pushing Zuma to the exit)...