The Treasury was a "stumbling block" to the Guptas' business ambitions and the family asked Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas to sack its director general, according to former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's "state capture" report.
He would have had to do this if he had accepted the Guptas' offer of becoming finance minister. He turned them down.
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