{"id":175955,"date":"2025-09-14T13:16:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=175955"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:16:35","slug":"amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=175955","title":{"rendered":"AMABHUNGANE: Milestone conviction in multibillion \u2018cum-ex\u2019 tax fraud tightens noose around Investec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A central figure in the epic \u2018cum-ex\u2019 tax fraud scheme was convicted in June after cooperating with prosecutors. At the height of the scheme, Dr Kai-Uwe Steck advised Investec and others on how to claim fraudulent tax refunds from European governments. Investec has acknowledged what it calls the \u2018historical involvement\u2019 of its employees&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/2025-07-31-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-conviction-tightens-noose-around-investec\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A central figure in the epic \u2018cum-ex\u2019 tax fraud scheme was convicted in June after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec.jpg",1280,691,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec-300x162.jpg",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec-768x415.jpg",640,346,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec-1024x553.jpg",640,346,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec.jpg",1280,691,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec.jpg",1280,691,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec-1024x553.jpg",1024,553,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/175955-amabhungane-milestone-conviction-in-multibillion-cum-ex-tax-fraud-tightens-noose-around-investec-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=16\" rel=\"category\">Europe<\/a>","tag_info":"Europe","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/175956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}