Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide CEO Johannes Steynberg has reportedly died in Brazil.
Steynberg’s dying follows a neighborhood identification fraud conviction and pending approval of extradition to South Africa.
As per a dying certificates printed to the “Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide Rip-off – Now What!?” FaceBook group, Steynberg, 40, died of sudden onset acute respiratory failure on April twenty second at 11:25pm.
The precise reason behind dying acknowledged on Steynberg’s purported dying certificates states;
Acute respiratory failure with sudden dying, pulmonary infarctions, bilateral huge pulmonary thromboembolism, bilateral intracardiac thrombosis, hypertrophic – dilated coronary heart illness, persistent smoking.
An April twenty third “burial information” doc from the Brazilian authorities states Steynberg shall be buried “on the Jardim das Palmeiras Cemetery in Goiania-GO”. No particular date is supplied.
Naturally with a $3.4 billion default judgment in opposition to him within the US, pending extradition to South Africa and native identification fraud conviction, Steynberg’s dying is extremely suspicious.
Following launch from jail earlier this 12 months after his three 12 months immigration sentence was commuted to an extra effective, Steynberg (proper) is reported to have been “beneath home arrest on a farm in Pirenópolis within the state of Goiás”.
This was presumably ordered pending the end result of Steynberg’s extradition to South Africa.
Issues get much more murky whenever you consider final 12 months Steynberg was illegally acquiring common entry to the web via Jail Director’s Workplace.
Final December Brazilian media reported Steynberg was utilizing his unlawful web entry to “handle his monetary affairs”. A number of months later he’s launched and apparently now useless, and due for what seems to be an expedited native burial.
Aside from knocking up a neighborhood in an try to beat extradition proceedings, Steynberg has no ties to Brazil. Though he has a spouse again in South Africa, Steynberg’s Brazilian dying certificates marks him as “single”.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories however on this explicit occasion, until there’s a physique flown again to South Africa and confirmed to be Steynberg, I’ll by no means be 100% satisfied he’s really useless.
It’s simply all too handy.
News24 reviews South Africa’s FBI equal, the Hawks, are “attempting to substantiate” Steynberg’s dying.
Brigadier Nomthandazo Mbambo mentioned the unit, which has been investigating fraud at MTI for the previous three years, was attempting to substantiate and confirm reviews of the 40-year-old’s dying.
Nit placing a lot religion in that contemplating South African authorities have so far did not make any arrests in relation to Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide.
In a federal lawsuit filed in opposition to Steynberg in 2022, the CFTC alleged Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide was a $1.7 billion greenback Ponzi scheme.
Suspected major beneficiaries Clynton and Cheri Marks stay at massive and residing brazenly in South Africa.