I think that's a translation of a passage by Honoré de Balzac: "Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait."
The French passage has a nice wit to it: "The secret of a great fortune without apparent origin is a forgotten crime, because it has been done properly."
"Derrière chaque fortune se cache un grand crime"
Honoré de Balzac
What or where is "S.A." ?
South Africa, the southernmost country on the African continent.
Likely South America, as it's the abbreviation corporate directories use for offices in that region. South Africa would probably be ZA, which comes from the Dutch, Zuid-Afrika.
South Australia, where behind every fortune, is a crime.