BREAKING: Extradition for Gupta brothers UNSUCCESSFUL Photo: Facebook/Awake Mzansi
An extradition bid to have the Gupta brothers returned from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to South Africa has been unsuccessful.
BREAKING: Extradition for Gupta brothers UNSUCCESSFUL Photo: Facebook/Awake Mzansi
The Gupta brothers, Rajesh and Atul, extradition bid failed.
Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola on Friday said the South African government had learned with “shock and dismay” that the Guptas had appeared in an extradition hearing on 13 February already and that the extradition bid was unsuccessful.
The South African government was only informed of this development on Friday.
This comes after the supposedly detained Gupta brothers, Rajesh and Atul, have reportedly been spotted in Switzerland.
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According to a report by the online publication Africa Intelligence on Thursday, the pair were seen in the European country in late March despite the latest reports from the UAE that the brothers have been kept in custody since a failed bail bid in July 2022.
The AI furthermore reported that the Gupta duo are travelling on their South African passports via private jet. They have reportedly been visiting the Central African Republic, where they have sought asylum.
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Africa Intelligence furthermore reported that Atul and Rajesh Gupta have applied for asylum in two other African nations.
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The family is headed by Ajay, Atul and Rajesh (“Tony”) Gupta, three brothers from the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Led by Atul, they arrived in South Africa in 1993 as white-minority apartheid rule crumbled, a year before Nelson Mandela won the country’s first democratic elections.
As the country opened up to foreign investment, the Guptas — previously small-scale businessmen in India — built a sprawling empire involved in computers, mining, media, technology and engineering.
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