{"id":215279,"date":"2023-03-21T12:41:28","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=215279"},"modified":"2023-03-21T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T04:41:28","slug":"south-african-corruption-investigator-cloete-murray-and-son-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=215279","title":{"rendered":"South African corruption investigator Cloete Murray and son shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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JOHANNESBURG,\u00a0March 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — <\/strong>A South African accountant who was investigating high-level corruption cases has been shot dead along with his son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloete Murray, 50, was the liquidator for Bosasa, a company implicated in numerous government contract scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also worked as a liquidator for firms linked to the wealthy Gupta brothers, who deny bribery accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police will see if there is a link between Murray’s murder and these corruption investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray was shot by unknown gunmen while driving in Johannesburg with his 28-year-old son Thomas, a legal adviser, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His son died at the scene while Murray was taken to hospital and later died of his injuries, local media reported, citing a police spokesperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pair were driving their white Toyota Prado towards their home in Pretoria, South African media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray’s job as a court-appointed company liquidator was to look into the accounts of firms that had folded, recover assets, and report any criminality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those companies was Bosasa, a government contractor specialising in prison services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The landmark Zondo commission into corruption concluded the company extensively bribed politicians and government officials to get government contracts during the nine-year presidency of Jacob Zuma, from 2009 to 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zuma refused to co-operate with the inquiry but has denied accusations of corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, current South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he would repay a $35,000 donation from Bosasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An anti-corruption investigator found he had misled parliament over the donation, but that finding was dismissed by the country’s High Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaphosa has also faced other corruption allegations, which he denies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bosasa went into voluntary liquidation after banks closed its accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray was also working as a liquidator for firms linked to the Gupta brothers. The Zondo commission found that the brothers – Ajay, Rajesh and Atul – tried to influence political and economic decisions during Zuma’s presidency in a process known as “state capture”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guptas moved from India to South Africa in 1993 and owned a wide-ranging portfolio of companies that enjoyed lucrative contracts with South African government departments and state-owned companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The South African authorities are currently working on having the Gupta brothers extradited from the UAE, where they have been arrested, to stand trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They have denied accusations of paying financial bribes to win contracts. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JOHANNESBURG,\u00a0March 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A South African accountant who was investigating high-level corruption cases has been shot dead along with his son. Cloete Murray, 50, was the liquidator for Bosasa, a company implicated in numerous government contract scandals. He also worked as a liquidator for firms linked to the wealthy Gupta brothers, who deny bribery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,215,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215287,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215279\/revisions\/215287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}