The Hawks are investigating new fraud and money-laundering allegations against Markus Jooste, 59, whose Steinhoff empire collapsed three years ago in what is said to be SA's biggest corporate fraud.

The Sunday Times has seen a Hawks court application, granted in the Stellenbosch magistrate's court in July, requesting access to the bank records from 2000 to 2009 of Jooste's horse-racing company, Mayfair Speculators...