Des van Rooyen visited the Gupta family compound not just once‚ but seven times‚ in the days before his appointment as finance minister by President Jacob Zuma in December last year‚ the newspaper reported.
The visits‚ on consecutive days between December 2 and 8‚ have been revealed by a team of public protector investigators tasked with probing alleged state capture by the family.
The BBC previously reported that cellphone evidence put Van Rooyen at the Guptas’ Saxonwold house on the night before his appointment. Now the Sunday Times has learnt that the minister visited the family for an entire week.
The investigators used cellphone records to track Van Rooyen’s whereabouts in the days preceding Zuma’s decision to appoint him in place of Nhlanhla Nene.
The revelations emerged as a trail of e-mails surfaced linking Van Rooyen‚ now co-operative governance minister‚ to a Gupta-linked company‚ the newspaper said.
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Van Rooyen visited Guptas 7 days in a row prior to appointment as finance minister
The visits‚ on consecutive days between December 2 and 8‚ have been revealed by a team of public protector investigators tasked with probing alleged state capture by the family.
The BBC previously reported that cellphone evidence put Van Rooyen at the Guptas’ Saxonwold house on the night before his appointment. Now the Sunday Times has learnt that the minister visited the family for an entire week.
The investigators used cellphone records to track Van Rooyen’s whereabouts in the days preceding Zuma’s decision to appoint him in place of Nhlanhla Nene.
The revelations emerged as a trail of e-mails surfaced linking Van Rooyen‚ now co-operative governance minister‚ to a Gupta-linked company‚ the newspaper said.
Tiso Black Star Group Digital/Sunday Times
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