{"id":45237,"date":"2022-06-07T18:59:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/07\/south-africa-seeking-extradite-gupta-brothers-arrest-dubai"},"modified":"2022-06-07T18:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T09:59:06","slug":"south-africa-seeking-to-extradite-gupta-brothers-after-arrest-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45237","title":{"rendered":"South Africa seeking to extradite Gupta brothers after arrest in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police begin process to transport Indian-born pair wanted on criminal and money-laundering charges<\/p>\n<p>Police in Dubai are coordinating with their South African counterparts to secure the extradition of two wealthy Indian-born brothers wanted by South African authorities on criminal and money-laundering charges who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/06\/gupta-brothers-arrested-in-dubai-over-alleged-corruption-in-south-africa\">arrested in the emirate on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Atul and Rajesh Gupta are accused of paying bribes in exchange for lucrative state contracts and influence over ministerial appointments during the chaotic nine-year presidency of Jacob Zuma, which ended amid allegations of systematic corruption in 2018. The brothers fled to Dubai shortly after Zuma\u2019s fall from power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/07\/south-africa-seeking-extradite-gupta-brothers-arrest-dubai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police begin process to transport Indian-born pair wanted on criminal and money-laundering chargesPolice in Dubai are coordinating with their South African counterparts to secure the extradition of two wealthy Indian-born brothers wanted by South Afric&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,1114,62,212,532,61,1039,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-dubai","category-india","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-arab-emirates","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45238,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45237\/revisions\/45238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}