US blacklists South Africa´s Gupta family over `widespread corruption´
(WorldNews France)

The US Treasury announced sanctions on Thursday on South Africa’s Gupta family and associate Salim Essa, calling them a “significant corruption network� that dispersed bribes and misappropriated millions in state funds.The wealthy Indian-born Guptas are at the centre of a judicial inquiry into rampant corruption during the nine-year administration of South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma.“The Gupta family leveraged its political connections to engage in widespread corruption and bribery,… ......