Government's plan to bring the Guptas back to South Africa

The government's plan to bring the Guptas back to South Africa to answer for their alleged crimes are gaining momentum.

According to Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, the National Central Bureau in Pretoria is engaging with their counterparts in foreign countries to obtain the whereabouts of the implicated members of the Gupta family.

Red Notices have been issued on July 5, 2021 and have been circulated on the Interpol system to ensure that should any of the implicated members of the Gupta family be found within the jurisdiction of an Interpol Member State, they can be arrested provisionally to allow for the extradition request to be transmitted urgently to that particular country.

The pair were arrested in connection with the charges related to procurement fraud involving R24.9 million paid between November 2011 and April 2012 by the Free State Department of Agriculture to a company called Nulane Investments 204.