Gupta brothers (Ajay, Atul and Rajesh)

And they were implicated in state capture in the Zuma era by Justice Raymond Zondo's Commission of Inquiry into state corruption (AC Vol 63 No 10 Zondo hands ANC a time-bomb Vol 63 No 12 Net closes around the Guptas &Vol 63 No 22 Prosecutor Batohi swings into action)...

He fell out with former President Jacob Zuma because he refused to give government tenders to Zuma's associates including the wealthy and influential Gupta family who were close business partners of Zuma's when he was president...

But in April a major trial involving the Gupta brothers who were at the heart of billions lost through corruption collapsed...

Suspicions linger that these failures may have political roots and that allies of Zuma and the Guptas still enough muscle within the system to derail prosecutions...

The latter's property has since been seized by the state pending investigations that he benefited from a R255m ($125m) asbestos eradication scheme which formed part of state capture by the Gupta brothers...

In June two of the three Gupta brothers who were allegedly at the heart of the state capture conspiracy were arrested in Dubai by Interpol following a probe initiated by the NPA's Investigating Directorate – one of a plethora of bodies set up by Ramaphosa since 2019 to assist in identifying and prosecuting the masterminds of corruption (AC Vol 63 No 12 Net closes around the Guptas)...

During the Zuma presidency Eskom and Transnet became the main vehicles for the Gupta brothers and other politically connected rent-seekers to extract state funds via dodgy tenders kickbacks and in the case of Eskom outright theft by criminal syndicates...

Even before the strike mismanagement and corruption at the ports were reckoned to costing the economy $55 million (R1bn) a day; this escalated to $330m (R6bn) a day in lost trade after the industrial action began on 6 October (AC Vol 63 No 12 Net closes around the Guptas)...

Hain has campaigned for several years to flush out global corporations and banks that made billions of rand from their complicity in state capture and money-laundering mainly for the Gupta brothers with the aid of former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 58 No 12 Net closes around the Guptas)...

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates and South Africa have been negotiating the extradition of Atul and Rajesh Gupta since their arrest on 6 June by Dubai police on an Interpol 'Red Notice'...

The UAE ratified an extradition treaty with South Africa last year while the United Kingdom and United States have also sanctioned the Guptas and put them on the Interpol red list (AC Vol 62 No 14 Relief as Zuma surrenders)...

The UAE could make a show of doing the right thing on the Guptas to boost its image on transparency...

They are likely to rat on Zuma and his allies in exchange for a lighter sentence So far President Cyril Ramaphosa has not reacted publicly to the Guptas' arrest but the timing is helpful as he is fighting off accusations from Arthur Fraser former intelligence chief and ally of Zuma's that he had broken forex regulations and was storing US dollars in his farmhouse...

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...

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...

' The Gupta brothers lived the celebrity life of billionaires in a palatial compound in a leafy suburb of Johannesburg...

The Zondo reports thus far have established a clear narrative detailing how former President Jacob Zuma collaborated with the businessmen Gupta brothers and senior officials to siphon billions in state funds abroad with a sizeable cut for the politically connected in the ANC...

'South Africans thought that the ANC government was in control of Eskom but it was not ' said Zondo in his fourth report released on 29 April adding that it had relinquished control to the Gupta brothers and Zuma did whatever they wanted him to do...

Part one of Zondo's report deals with rampant corruption at South African Airways (SAA) the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and the Gupta brothers' media operations...

He faces serial fraud charges from an arms deal in the 1990s and is likely to be further implicated in corruption through his relationship with the Gupta brothers who fled to Dubai in 2018 having siphoned billions of rands in kickbacks from state contracts...

Zuma's preferred political heir is his son Duduzane a close associate of the Guptas who recently returned from five years in Dubai...

We hear the Guptas have given 2 billion rand ($125 million) for Duduzane's campaign...