The disgraced former chief executive allegedly shot himself on a Hermanus beach in the Western Cape just a day after he was slapped with a R475 million fine
But European executive Dirk Schreiber has entered into a leniency agreement, avoiding a financial penalty
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The central bank told the court that Berdine Odendaal had a repudiated an agreement to be given access to frozen funds by demanding more
For now, South Africa is reluctant to relinquish him to stand trial in Germany for the corporate fraud that nearly imploded ‘Africa’s Ikea’
Markus Jooste is still challenging JSE fines totalling R15 million for his role in the balance sheet scandal
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The former Steinhoff chief executive is among four accused indicted by the regional court in Oldenburg
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Analysts believe it will be easier to build a case against the former Steinhoff CEO on ‘lesser crimes’ instead of complex international investment fraud
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The retail firm has not established why the contents of the 3 000-page report is privileged, counsel argued. And even if it had, the report’s release is ‘in the public’s interest’
The bank took a knock after being labelled a loan shark by the short seller, but this has not stymied its growth
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Bernard Mostert on the ordeal of losing a business he helped build and the fight to get it back
Current cases make it highly debatable whether those in the boardroom know what they’re doing
Let us never forget the private-sector players who facilitated public-sector fraud
The former Steinhoff chief executive and three others have been fined by the FSCA for insider trading in the days leading up to the company’s 2017 share price crash
As long as the only legitimate litigant is Steinhoff itself, the company’s directors will remain at large
It ought not to have made any sense. And yet, it somehow did. The DA had spent much of the year before at war with itself
The former Steinhoff chief executive could be ordered to pay back R870-million to the global general household retailer
Revised financial statements reveal just how deeply compromised the ‘zombie company’ is
The summary of a PwC report sketches an outline of the conspiracy at the heart of efforts to inflate the retail group’s profits and assets
Steinhoff expects to receive the report at the end of February
The major bid lists as many as 42 defendants to get as much as possible out for investors
IRBA cannot afford to hire more investigators
Lenders and other creditors have now agreed that Markus Jooste has until March 2019 to repay his debts without interest
The policing unit still needs hard evidence but says that the investigation is ‘receiving attention’
The apparently empathy-deficient Markus Jooste just doesn’t get it
Markus Jooste has become a walking wanted poster that shows what a corporate gangster looks like in South Africa
Steinhoff’s former CEO Markus Jooste testified to Parliament that he did not know about any ‘accounting irregularities’ at the furniture retail giant
Former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste has testified that the blame for the company’s share price collapse lay with a disgruntled former partner
The elusive Jooste is set to appear in Parliament on Wednesday to answer questions from MPs
Saica’s inquiry into chartered accountant, commentator and former Wits lecturer Khaya Sithole will resume on Wednesday
Steinhoff en die Stellenbosse Boys, launched earlier in July, traces the history of retailer Steinhoff
The report finds that only 2.2% of the CEOs at JSE-listed companies are women
The retailer’s stock is still down by over 95% from where it was before news of Jooste’s resignation reached the market