This week the"battle for Zonnekus" ended in an auction after the 10-year spat had gone as far as the Constitutional Court.
They and their legal representatives made hundreds of court appearances in a fight with the South African Revenue Service over a $15.5m payment to Candice - allegedly a gift from her"admirer", former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri.This promoted a Sars investigation and a subsequent tax bill, which the Van der Merwes challenged.
This paved the way for this week's sale by WH Auctioneers, with the winning bid now under consideration by liquidators Sanek Trust Recovery Services. Moodliar said any claim against the Zonnekus sale"is no bar to the realisation of assets, which the liquidators are, by law, obliged to do".
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