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Die onthulling van staatskaping het, benewens die politieke en finansiële impakte vir en op Suid-Afrika, ook opnuut die vergrootglas gefokus op die rol wat professionele lui gespeel het in die skadukant van die sakewêreld.
News24 reported that former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, in an interview broadcast on Cape Talk, said that auditors KPMG SA was a “willing participant in state capture and its leadership hasn't fully grasped the magnitude of what they were involved in.” He went on to express the opinion that KPMG SA’s years-long auditing of multiple Gupta-owned companies had to be understood in the context of state capture, and could not be represented as a merely “technical matter”.
According to Legal Brief, the weekly mouthpiece of the Law Society of South Africa, Gordhan stated that “they (KPMG SA) were, in fact, willing partners so to speak and although they perhaps didn’t realise the magnitude of what they were doing, but, for a fee, they were willing partners in a state capture project, as were many others.” According to the article, Gordhan said that KMPG SA's leadership, which was cleared out on Friday 15 September 2017, had been “ducking and diving” for too long about the work they had done for Gupta-owned companies. Asked by his host on the Cape Talk show what effect KPMG’s auditing of Gupta-owned companies has had on the SA economy, Gordhan said it was “huge” and “ultimately you can say that, in relation to the audits they performed for the companies – and that varies from seven years to 15 years – that any short-sightedness of oversight, or refusal to cut through the fog to understand what was actually going on, is the direct cause of allowing hundreds of billions of rands to leave SA.” Gordhan added that “for now (KPMG) has to bear the responsibility of the billions we have lost.”
Scenarios, baie soortgelyk aan dié wat in die raadskamers van KMPG, plaaslik en oorsee, plaasgevind het oor die afgelope maande, speel vir seker ook af in die raadsale van baie ander professionele firmas. Daar was sekerlik ook ander, regslui ingesluit, wat net so gretig was om sake met die Guptas te doen. Mens wonder onwillikeurig of enige van hulle dit self sal erken en of ons maar sal moet wag totdat die sweer oopbars. Baie belangrike besluite moet geneem word.
Keep watching the press! The ramifications for certain of our leading professional firms could be vast.
Greetings / Groete
Hennie & Eberhard
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