State Struggles To Mine The Gupta Leaks Emails For Evidence

Although the fugitive Gupta familys fingerprints are all over the state capture project, they have been directly implicated in only two criminal cases brought before court so far. The charges informed the bid to secure their extradition , which has become a mirage .

Both cases ended in the discharge of the accused and in both instances the prosecutions defeat is due in part to its difficulty in making use of the Gupta leaks emails as evidence material.

The trove provides the names of many of those within the administration who enabled and partook in the looting, and indicates the flow of funds through instructions and invoices that helps to establish a case of fraud and money-laundering .

They are probably critical to all state capture cases, a well-placed source said this week.

But it became apparent already in the public hearings of the Zondo commission that those implicated in state capture would challenge the admissibility of the information at every turn.