THE State believes that more than R700 000 was looted from seven bank accounts belonging to British botanists Rod Saunders, 74, and his wife Rachel, 63, over four days in February 2018.
At the time, police were searching for the couple, who were reported kidnapped on February 12 while on a field trip to the Ngoye Forest near Eshowe in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
Their badly decomposed bodies washed up at the Tugela River mouth days