If Jooste was black he would have been arrested by now – ANC MP (12:55)
ANC MP Dikeledi Mahlangu has said that if former Steinhoff CEO Markus Jooste was black, prosecuting authorities would have taken the investigation more seriously and would have arrested him by now.
"If he was black it would have been a huge thing, there would have been prosecution by now," she said.
Mahlangu made her comments shortly after the Hawks and NPA made presentations on the progress made on probes and prosecutions related to the group.
She said that Jooste undermined Parliament, the NPA and the Hawks. "It's like chasing a moving shadow," she said.
She urged law enforcement agencies to act because bodies conducting oversight like Parliament are now appearing to be "toothless".
"This is people's money we are talking about," she said, referring to the loss in value of Steinhoff shares in December last year when knowledge of the accounting irregularities was revealed.