The R376m invoice used to cook Steinhoff's books - JSE points finger at Markus Jooste

Nearly five years after Markus Jooste resigned under a cloud as Steinhoff CEO, a bogus, handwritten invoice could be the evidence needed to implicate him in cooking the company's books to the tune of almost R400 million. 

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has implicated Jooste in creating the sham R376 million invoice - one of the clearest pieces of evidence of wrongdoing yet against him. 

According to the bourse, Jooste presented the fictitious "handwritten" invoice to Steinhoff's former chief financial officer, Ben la Grange, in late 2016. La Grange then processed the invoice, which falsely inflated Steinhoff's income.