Researcher of forensics firm Shadow World Investigations, Paul Holden, said some of the transactions in the flow of Estina funds was intended to break the trail of laundering in case investigators started looking.
Holden is back at the state capture commission on Friday where he is detailing those very hidden transactions.
He said some of the R280 million that was paid by the Free State to Estina was used to raise loans offshore and only returned to buy dairy equipment when there was an uproar.
Holden describes some of the reasons for the intricate flows: “I suspect two primary purposes; the one is to make the tracing of the funds slightly more difficult, and the second is that it creates a break for Estina, which can be used to justify if there ever was an investigation.”
-EWN
