No to preferential treatment for Guptas
10 September 2018
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation supports arguments made by Advocate Vincent Maleka against the Guptas participating via video link up in the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.
Last week, Maleka, the Commission’s evidence leader, tore into arguments suggesting that Gupta family members be allowed to cross examine witnesses via video call – the decision of which will be made this week.
Maleka also dismissed the idea of the entire Commission travelling to Dubai, simply to allow the Guptas’ participation in the proceedings, raising the issue of the exorbitant cost factor of such an exercise in an already cash strapped South African economy.
The Foundation’s Executive Director, Neeshan Balton, said that the “audacity of the Guptas to ask for preferential treatment, despite being so deeply implicated in the state capture process, shows their arrogance”.