NPA Directorate firmly in pursuit of Gupta kingpin Salim Essa and ex-McKinsey partner Vikas Sagar

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NPA Directorate firmly in pursuit of Gupta kingpin Salim Essa and ex-McKinsey partner Vikas Sagar
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Former McKinsey & Co partner Vikas Sagar, Gupta enterprise kingpin Salim Essa and longtime Gupta enterprise employee Ashok Narayan are not off the hook and they officially remain suspects wanted on criminal charges relating to an advisory contract linked to Transnet’s acquisition of locomotives, the Investigating Directorate (ID) of the National...

The Investigating Directorate of the National Prosecuting Authority maintains Essa and Sagar are wanted alongside Gupta lieutenant Ashok Narayan, and says plans to extradite them are under way.

The three men were first added to a draft indictment in September 2022 when the ID confirmed that warrants for their arrest had been issued. The ID was still trying to extradite them as they remained wanted suspects, it said in a written response to questions fromConsidering that more than a year has passed since the three were first named in court and they have failed to appear in court several times since then,“We cannot provide this information as it will negatively impact the process.”

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