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Steinhoff International's shares crashed on Wednesday after it revealed 'accounting irregularities' and its CEO quit, shocking investors who had backed the rapid reinvention of a South African furniture chain into an international retail empire.

It put Christo Wiese, its largest shareholder and chairman, in charge and later sought to give 'additional comfort' to investors worried about its ability to fund its existing operations, saying it had ‍identified measures that would give it around 2 billion euros ($2.4 billion) of additional liquidity.

Steinhoff said chief executive Markus Jooste, who oversaw its expansion to one of the world's largest household goods retailers over nearly 20 years, had resigned and PwC would undertake an 'independent investigation'.

The company later said its chief financial officer remained in his position and there was no evidence to suggest he had any involvement in the matters being investigated.

'It's a red flag, this is something very serious,' said Peter Brooke, portfolio manager at Old Mutual Investment Group, a top 20 shareholder in Steinhoff. It also raised wider questions about South African corporate governance and would have a negative impact on the country's assets, he added.

Steinhoff has been aggressively expanding in developed markets since moving its primary share listing from Johannesburg to Frankfurt in 2015, snapping up Britain's Poundland, U.S-based Mattress Firm and Australia's Fantastic.

Steinhoff said Wiese would 'embark on a detailed review of all aspects of the company's business with a view to maximising shareholder value', but its South African shares had slumped 61 percent to close at 15.87 rand, after hitting an eight-year low of 13.50 rand in earlier trading.

Steinhoff stock closed down 63 percent in Frankfurt, while its bonds also sold off sharply.

A spokeswoman for Deloitte Accountants B.V., which signed off Steinhoff's 2016 results, declined immediate comment.

Steinhoff, which also said it was postponing the release of its 2017 results until the probe was over, has been under investigation for suspected accounting irregularities by the state prosecutor in Oldenburg, Germany since 2015.

The company has said that move related to whether revenues were booked properly, and whether taxable profit was correctly declared.

Reuters reported last month that Steinhoff did not tell investors about almost $1 billion in transactions with a related company, despite laws that some experts say require it to do so.

It is unclear what accounting irregularities the company was referring to on Wednesday. A spokesman declined further comment and attempts by Reuters to contact Jooste were not successful.

There were wider repercussions in the Steinhoff group, with Ben la Grange, chief executive of Steinhoff African Retail (STAR), which includes control of Shoprite, also resigning and STAR shares falling more than 30 percent.

Omri Thomas of Abax Investments, the 15th largest investor in Steinhoff, said because there was no immediate prospect of any clarity on its results, it was hard to put a value on Steinhoff and this had prompted the severe share reaction.

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Analysts have long questioned how Steinhoff managed to achieve such a low tax rate. Its tax rate has averaged 12 percent over the past five years -- half the headline corporate tax rate in its main markets and less than half the rates paid by listed competitors including France's Casino, Germany's Metro AG and South Africa's Woolworths.

Experts say such low tax rates can be the result of complex corporate structures which stretch accounting rules and such arrangements are occasionally challenged by courts as unlawful.

'The company recorded a very unusual tax rate of c. 15 percent and also guided that this would be the rate going forward,' Juergen Kolb, an analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux, said in a note, adding that if this tax rate was at risk it could also hit Steinhoff's cashflow.

Kolb also raised the possibility that as chairman, Wiese's role could now come under scrutiny too.

Steinhoff, which employs 130,000 people, did not respond to requests for information about what, if anything, Wiese knew about the accounting problems now being investigated.

Mind quotes in 6 words or less. Investors also told Reuters they are concerned Wiese may be forced to sell shares he bought last year with borrowed money, which would depress Steinhoff's stock further.

Wiese borrowed 1.6 billion euros ($1.9 billion) to buy additional Steinhoff shares through a family trust in September 2016, pledging 3.2 billion euros of his existing holding as security to the investment banks that lent the money.

With the share price plunge taking the security below the value of the loan, Wiese may be required by the financing banks -- Citi, Goldman, HSBC and Nomura - to post more shares as collateral, or sell part of his holding.

Reuters

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