Guptas must 'pay back the money'
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan wants the controversial Gupta family and their collaborators to follow the lead of firms like McKinsey and ‘pay back the money’.
According to an EWN report, Gordhan has borrowed the phrase often used by his arch-enemy, the EFF, to call on companies and individuals accused of looting SOEs to refund the state.
The Minister made the call while tabling his department's budget in the National Council of Provinces yesterday.
Gordhan focused his address to the upper house of Parliament on the massive damage inflicted on SOEs by various companies and their collaborators.
He suggested that those who looted coffers through state capture were to blame for damaging SOEs like SAA and Eskom and not the current regime.
‘All of us must focus our undivided attention to those who stole our money, to those who actively collaborated, to those businesses and professionals who enabled this theft and to those professionals and others who dedicated their energies to defend the corrupt,’ Gordhan said.
He said that it was imperative that those complicit in looting, pay back the money.
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