A South African accountant investigating high-level corruption cases was shot dead along with his son.

Kloete Murray, 50, was the liquidator for Bosasa, a company implicated in numerous government contract scandals.

He also worked as a liquidator for firms associated with the wealthy Gupta brothers, who deny allegations of bribery.

The police will check if there is a link between Mr. Murray’s murder and this corruption investigation.

Mr. Murray was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while driving in Johannesburg with his 28-year-old son Thomas, a legal adviser, on Saturday.

His son died at the scene, while Murray was taken to hospital and later died from his injuries, local media reported, citing a police spokesman.

According to South African media reports, the couple was driving their white Toyota Prado to their home in Pretoria.

Mr. Murray’s job as a court-appointed company liquidator was to check the accounts of firms that had closed, recover assets and report any crime.

One such company was Bosasa, a government contractor specializing in prison services.

Zondo’s landmark corruption commission concluded that the company extensively bribed politicians and government officials to win government contracts during Jacob Zuma’s nine-year presidency from 2009 to 2018.

Mr. Zuma refused to cooperate with the investigation, but denied allegations of corruption.

In 2018, current South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he would return a $35,000 (£27,300) donation from Bosasa.

The anti-corruption investigator found that he had misled parliament about the donation, but that the decision was rejected by the country’s High CourtT.

Mr Ramaphosa also faced other allegations of corruptionwhich he denies.

Bosasa went into voluntary liquidation after banks closed its accounts.

Mr. Murray also worked as a liquidator for firms associated with the Gupta brothers. The Zondo Commission found that brothers Ajay, Rajesh and Atul tried to influence political and economic decisions during Mr. Zuma’s presidency in a process known as “state capture”.

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The Guptas moved from India to South Africa in 1993 and owned an extensive portfolio of companies that had lucrative contracts with South African government departments and state-owned companies.

South African authorities is currently working on the extradition of the Gupta brothers from the UAE.where they were arrested to face trial.

They denied accusations of paying financial bribes to win contracts.

Two weeks after South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdo was convicted of the brutal murder of his wife and son, the body of a teenager found dead on a country road near the scene of the murder six years earlier is now due to be exhumed.

Sandy Smith has confirmed that the remains of her son Stephen, who was 19 at the time of his death, will be subjected to a private autopsy after a GoFundMe campaign raised $43,000 to pay for the exhumation.

“It’s Steven’s Year”, Smith told NBC News and thanked the donors for “not letting Stephen’s story be swept under the rug.”

The death of Stephen Smith has long puzzled South Carolina investigators, who reopened what was initially thought to be an accident last year after Murdo, 54, was charged with the murders of his 52-year-old wife Maggie and 22-year-old son Paul. last year

Murdo’s trial for these murders captured the imagination of America – and the world – with its violence played out against the corrupt politics of small-town rural life in a dramatic piece from Deep South Gothic.

But the two murders weren’t the only deaths in the Murdo family circle, as the legions of online investigators involved in the lawsuit, along with numerous documentary makers, handled other clan-related cases.

The coroner’s report at the time of Smith’s death found that he had a “protective wound” on his arm and a murder investigation was launched. But the medical examiner wrote in the report that Smith’s cause of death was a blow to the head with a car mirror.

After Murdo was arrested on murder charges, South Carolina law enforcement agents, or Sled, said their investigation sparked an investigation into other mysterious deaths linked to the Murdo family.

State investigators said they were opening an investigation into Smith’s death “based on information gathered during the double homicide investigation.” They said last week that they had “made progress” on the investigation into Smith’s death and that it “remains active and ongoing.”

Smith’s body was found 15 miles from the Murdo estate, known as the Moselle. Questions were raised after it was noted that he was found in the middle of the road, far from where his car ran out of gas, and that he was still wearing loose-fitting sneakers, inconsistent with a violent car collision.

Separately, South Carolina Highway Patrol investigators said they had received intelligence that Buster Murdo’s son may have been involved.

Buster and Smith reportedly graduated from the same high school in 2014. According to reports, the traffic police report on Smith’s death contains interviews suggesting that Murdo’s eldest son be questioned.

Some have claimed that Smith, who was openly gay, and Buster were in a relationship. ABC 4. No member of the Murdo family has been directly identified as being involved in Smith’s death.

“We believe it is critical to seek a new target – an independent exhumation and autopsy – and we are launching justice for Stephen N. Smith with this immediate goal in mind,” Sandy Smith wrote on her fundraising page.

“We need a new, unbiased look at his body and an accurate, fact-based determination of the cause of his death. There was no debris on the road, and his injuries did not match the collision, ”she added.

Other deaths in the orbit of the once-powerful Murdo family that are currently being looked at more closely include those of family housekeeper Gloria Satterfield and 19-year-old Mallory Beach, both of whom died in a 2019 boating accident linked to Murdo’s murdered son Paul.

State investigators also said they would exhume Sutterfield’s body as part of the investigation.

Lawyers for convicted murderer Alex Murdo announced last week that they plan to appeal his convictions and life sentences over the June 2021 deaths of his wife and son. The notice of appeal made no arguments.