Brazilian authorities have confirmed Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide CEO Johannes Steynberg’s demise.
Subsequently, an id fraud associated legal case in opposition to Steynberg have been dropped.
As reported by Jan Vermeulen from MyBroadband on August fifteenth;
A Brazilian federal decide has ordered legal fees in opposition to Johann Steynberg dropped after a police investigation discovered studies about his demise to be correct.
The order, which MyBroadband has seen, was handed down by Choose Silvio Gemaque, who mentioned that Steynberg’s demise certificates was added to the case file.
Along with id fraud fees in Brazil, Steynberg (proper) was in the midst of extradition proceedings initiated by South African authorities.
Steynberg fled South Africa following Mirror Buying and selling Worldwide’s collapse in late 2020. He was then arrested in Brazil in January 2022.
US authorities secured a $3.4 billion default judgment in opposition to Steynberg in April 2023.
South African authorities haven’t publicly revealed particulars about their MTI legal investigation.
This contains why MTI’s co-founders and suspected main beneficiaries, Clynton Marks and Cheri Ward (proper), stay at massive in South Africa.
One may be tempted to sympathize with Steynberg, having died in another country below home arrest of a bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism (a blood clot within the lungs).
It ought to be remembered thought that to get there;
Take out the monetary fraud side and that’s not a foul technique to spend the final yr of your life as a free man.
To this point neither South African or US authorities have publicly confirmed Steynberg’s demise.
South African liquidation proceedings are ongoing, however so far have solely actually financially benefited the liquidators themselves.
That mentioned, MTI’s liquidators did provoke clawback litigation in opposition to US net-winners earlier this yr.
Clawback proceedings in South Africa, together with in opposition to Clynton Marks, Cheri Ward and their accomplices, have been a large number final we heard something.