Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide CEO Johannes Steynberg has reportedly died in Brazil.
Steynberg’s loss of life follows an area identification fraud conviction and pending approval of extradition to South Africa.
As per a loss of life 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 for loss of life acknowledged on Steynberg’s purported loss of life certificates states;
Acute respiratory failure with sudden loss of life, pulmonary infarctions, bilateral huge pulmonary thromboembolism, bilateral intracardiac thrombosis, hypertrophic – dilated coronary heart illness, power smoking.
An April twenty third “burial information” doc from the Brazilian authorities states Steynberg might be buried “on the Jardim das Palmeiras Cemetery in Goiania-GO”. No particular date is supplied.
Naturally with a $3.4 billion default judgment towards him within the US, pending extradition to South Africa and native identification fraud conviction, Steynberg’s loss of life is extremely suspicious.
Following launch from jail earlier this 12 months after his three 12 months immigration sentence was commuted to a further tremendous, Steynberg (proper) is reported to have been “underneath home arrest on a farm in Pirenópolis within the state of Goiás”.
This was presumably ordered pending the result of Steynberg’s extradition to South Africa.
Issues get much more murky while you think about final 12 months Steynberg was illegally acquiring common entry to the web by way of 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 lifeless, and due for what seems to be an expedited native burial.
Apart from knocking up an area in an try and beat extradition proceedings, Steynberg has no ties to Brazil. Though he has a spouse again in South Africa, Steynberg’s Brazilian loss of life certificates marks him as “single”.
I’m not one for conspiracy theories however on this explicit occasion, except there’s a physique flown again to South Africa and confirmed to be Steynberg, I’ll by no means be 100% satisfied he’s truly lifeless.
It’s simply all too handy.
News24 studies South Africa’s FBI equal, the Hawks, are “attempting to verify” Steynberg’s loss of life.
Brigadier Nomthandazo Mbambo mentioned the unit, which has been investigating fraud at MTI for the previous three years, was attempting to verify and confirm studies of the 40-year-old’s loss of life.
Nit placing a lot religion in that contemplating South African authorities have to date didn’t make any arrests in relation to Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide.
In a federal lawsuit filed towards Steynberg in 2022, the CFTC alleged Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide was a $1.7 billion greenback Ponzi scheme.
Suspected main beneficiaries Clynton and Cheri Marks stay at giant and dwelling brazenly in South Africa.
