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The King case ended some 13 years later with a settlement between King, the NPA, the South African Reserve Bank, King’s trustees and SARS. The settlement included plea and sentence agreements before the High Court, a fine of R3.28 million or 984 months’ (82 years’) imprisonment, and the payment of R8.75 million into the Criminal Assets Recovery Account. SARS recovered R706.70 million in outstanding taxes.19

Ngcukana concluded that Zuma is the “ultimate traitor” for having subverted the police, the Hawks, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the intelligence agencies.

Chief among his advisors, and swiftly appointed to head up the South African Secret Service when Zuma came to power in 2009, was Mo Shaik, the ANC underground operative who became the democratic South Africa’s first chief of National Intelligence. He was disgraced when he tried to besmirch the NPA head, Bulelani Ngcuka, in 2003. In the two and a half years preceding Jacob Zuma’s ascent to power at Polokwane, Shaik built a formidable network of volunteers, funders and recruiters to back Zuma’s campaign.26

A pattern of appointing cronies and loyalists in key positions emerged at the outset of Zuma's presidency. He was mindful that he could still be brought to book for corruption in the future, and set in motion a shadow security state that would undermine the independence of the police and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).