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KPMG may have to repay VBS because of its alleged fraudulent audits if the defunct bank’s liquidators have their way. (Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Images)

VBS Mutual liquidators target KPMG

Liquidators are investigating the auditing firm’s sign-off on financial statements, while two former executives also pursue a lawsuit against it

EFF deputy CIC’s younger brother, Brian Shivambu. (Facebook)

VBS curator in court to recover Shivambu loan

Brian Shivambu has not serviced the loan and is in arrears of more than R2.7-million

Former VBS chief operating officer Robert Madzonga’s wife Khosi’s Instagram account is filled with images of conspicuous consumption. Meanwhile thousands of Limpopo residents have lost their life savings. (Instagram)

Court bid to freeze VBS’s R80m

Community schemes service says money meant for VBS went into an FNB account

Loss claim: CSOS was advised to take civil action to recover money lost in an unapproved investment in VBS bank. (Delwyn Verasamy)

R80m VBS loss for homes ombud

A forensic report has found the Community Scheme Ombud Service investment was reckless

Former president Jacob Zuma at his Nkandla homestead in 2007. (Gallo)

Zuma must still pay back VBS home loan

VBS Mutual Bank granted the former president an R8.5-million bond which he could not afford

Michael Cohen as sentenced to three years in prison in December, after admitting to having paid hush money during the 2016 election to two women who said they had had affairs with Donald Trump. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

New report backs criminal charges against VBS ‘captors’

An explosive report commissioned by the Reserve Bank identifies alleged kingpins in the looting of the beleaguered mutual bank

Michael Cohen as sentenced to three years in prison in December, after admitting to having paid hush money during the 2016 election to two women who said they had had affairs with Donald Trump. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

State officials fingered in a VBS-linked dodgy deposit

Pandemonium reigned at the board of the Community Schemes Ombud Service. What would these officials tell the minister?

Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right leader of Brazil’s Social Liberal Party, react during the election in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. Bolsonaro openly holds democracy in contempt. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

Two more VBS execs provisionally sequestrated

Andile Ramavhunga was provisionally sequestrated, along with Robert Madzonga

In an affidavit, VBS bank’s curator Anoosh Rooplal had named Robert Madzonga as being among the “controlling minds” behind the alleged fraud saga. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Former VBS boss only heard of ‘looting’ after it happened, advocate argues

During proceedings on Wednesday, Robert Madzonga’s advocate, said his client only became aware of the looting on March 11 this year

Robert Madzonga. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Three VBS execs provisionally sequestrated, Vele liquidated

The sequestration and liquidation matter, which is ongoing, is being heard in the Johannesburg high court on Tuesday

Michael Cohen as sentenced to three years in prison in December, after admitting to having paid hush money during the 2016 election to two women who said they had had affairs with Donald Trump. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images)

VBS saga: Municipalities in for half-a-decade wait for a fraction of R1.5bn deposits

Disciplinary action is going to be lodged against those responsible – from the bank and the municipalities – for the funds ending up with VBS.

Saica’s members that are implicated include former chief executive Andile Ramavhunga and former holding company Vele Investments chairperson Tshifhiwa Matodzi. (SABC)

Liquidity problems were just the start

Breakdown of the VBS Mutual Bank saga — what you need to know

Victims of the VBS Mutual Bank (VBS) scandal who lost their life savings say it is ironic that Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members are demanding the return of “stolen” land while failing to pay back the money they allegedly received unlawfully from the bank.

The plans to expand VBS if ‘looting’ wasn’t exposed

VBS Mutual Bank was set to become a commercial bank

The chairperson of VBS Mutual Bank

Power struggle rocks VBS bank’s main shareholder

Two Vele Investments bigwigs are at the heart of a power struggle as the VBS fraud saga continues

In denial: Paul Magula, the former head of risk and compliance at the Public Investment Corporation, told Reserve Bank investigators that he received bribes to turn a blind eye to corruption at VBS Mutual Bank

Further PIC bloodletting in wake of VBS looting

The PIC crisis comes as the embattled VBS bank was placed under curatorship in March after Reserve Bank discovered liquidity issues

Cyril Ramaphosa (Paul Botes)

ANC bash caught up in VBS web

Siphoned-off funds seem to have been used to buy a table at the party’s birthday dinner

ANC secretary general Ace Magashule. (Rogan Ward/Reuters)

VBS’s future in doubt

Retrenchments are in the offing at the embattled bank, amid allegations of fraud of ‘epic proportions’

“We overly relied on the audited financial statements [of VBS],” said Kuben Naidoo.

Reserve Bank: No guarantee municipalities will get VBS money back

The standing committee on finance held a briefing on progress made on VBS Mutual Bank, since it was placed under curatorship in March

Frustration reigned at the R2.3-billion VBS Mutual Bank heist court case after another postponement, with one of the accused’s lawyers arguing that his client was suffering financial prejudice because of the state’s alleged ineptitude.

VBS fined R2.5m for flouting money-laundering regulations

This is according to the 2017 annual report from the Reserve Bank’s banking supervision department, which was released on Tuesday morning

Mikateko Mangwane claims she was replaced as a signatory.

‘VBS refused to take me seriously’

A businessperson says the bank wouldn’t look into her partner’s alleged fraudulant transactions