37-day head start: Guptas’ lawyers knew about failed extradition long before SA was informed

Oh what a slippery slope we fall down when we demand international justice for us, and then fork our tongue and deny that we are accountable to deliver it in a commensurate exchange... you know like when you ratify that you will abide by a statute.

The role of the SA embassy is pertinent, it was their responsibility to monitor events and report back to the SA government - clearly they are incompetent, or were they party to the failed process? The exculpatory obfuscation of the SA government is not convincing, ANC inner circle beneficiaries of Gupta largesse at SA taxpayers expense will obstruct any attempt to prosecute the Guptas in SA at all costs, aided and abetted by a lame duck president.

Of course, had our government not allowed them to abscond in the first instance, none of this would have happened... Where does the rot start?

I agree with Grham Nelson and would fully support a Emirates Airline boycott. If enough travellers join in it would send a message to UAE that they need to reconsider their foreign affairs policy if they want to be part of a decent law abiding world. I also agree with Kevin Immelman - unfortunately, once again, our foriegn policy is totally part of why we are fast becoming a failed nation. The latest Russian cordial relations are also going to come back and bite the average, law abiding, decent South African citizen.

All along we thought Switzerland is where people with 'cash' to hide is thee place ! Now it seems they could even be giving the Guptas a haven . Anyone who thinks that any of those oil rich middle eastern thugocracies, or the Russian and Chinese et al systems (which the ruling party here aspires to) are going to co-operate with any semblance of 'justice' being served ... are wholly misguided. Their entire judicial 'system' (for the lack of a better word) is organised quite deliberately to (and Israel is quickly heading that way) support and endorse every thing the 'rulers' want them to do. Separation of power is for the birds. A relatively 'independent' judiciary is anathema to them . In which democracy do we find 'hearings' being conducted behind 'closed doors' ?

So the sand jockeys are as corrupt as their ANC counterpart. No surprises there. But what really surprises me, even shocks me, is the lethargy of the South African public. In this country of daily frantic protests, seemingly nobody bothered to go to UAE embassy to tell them what we think of them. This is the ultimate insult to our country and by now I would expect hundreds of thousands vocal protesters there.

Who are their lawyers? The story does not say.

A truly despicable bunch. Even more despicable than our own bunch, which says something. If ever there was a nest of vipers, the UAE (aka the cloaca of the world of finance) is it. A pox on you if you fly Emirates. I stopped a loooong time ago.

Put Exchange Control violations back onto the charge sheet and get them on that! Money laundering is the one sin that the economic world agrees on….and Dubai is the capital of Money Laundering so no wonder they wanted it off the charge sheet! Get the Guptas on the small stuff with the worlds approval.

The UAE has always been a state owned by Arab family clans. All government action is only for the benefit of these clans. Legal and diplomatic institutions only outwardly reflect western-democratic standards, owing to the image of a modern business location. The ANC is a post-communist criminal organization to maintain power for an elite who, following the example of Putin's oligarchs, have enriched themselves at the expense of their own people. The Guptas are an Indian family clan with the help of which the ANC has attempted to take over the South African state along the lines of authoritarian, pre-democratic systems of rule. They all share a hatred of western-democratic standards because they limit the power of the ruling ideology in time, so they are all in the same boat. It is therefore completely irrelevant where exactly the cause of the failed delivery lies.