It is ironical and a sheer coincidence that the present case revolves around that very sentence attributed to Balzac…”
Justice Khosa later said in the judgement: „I may, therefore, be justified in raising an adverse inference in the matter. The fortune amassed by respondent No. 1 is indeed huge and no plausible or satisfactory explanation has been advanced in that regard. HonorĂ© de Balzac may after all be right when he had said that behind every great fortune for which one is at a loss to account there is a crime.“