Kidnapped CFO Sandra Munsamy comes home to tangled web of debt

Pinetown businesswoman Sandra Munsamy —  a key figure in the multibillion-rand Xmoor Transport family business empire —  was snatched in a brazen daylight kidnapping by a gang of armed men, setting in motion a hostage and ransom drama that spanned six months.

But on Thursday, 162 days after she disappeared, Hawks detectives found the KwaZulu-Natal businesswoman alive and shackled in chains in a house in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga.

She returns to a business empire and a family —  who once did business with the Guptas in a deal that went sour —  in turmoil.

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