Investigating unit sends request for help to get to the bottom of fraud and misrepresentation case
Former CEO of Steinhoff, Markus Jooste, answers questions in parliament, Cape Town. Credit: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAY TIMESAn application for legal assistance to source evidence in the Steinhoff matter has been finalised and sent to Austria, Hawks boss Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya says.
Steinhoff largely settled the impasse with Seifert by selling half its German furniture chain POCO to Seifert, who had sued the retailer in three countries. Civil society groups and various experts have previously suggested that the Hawks and other law enforcement agencies do not have the capacity to investigate such complex cases. Briefing parliament’s police committee in 2018, Lebeya conceded this. He said at the time that the organisation did not have sufficient capacity to deal with some of the commercial crimes, and it had to look for assistance.
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