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 explanation for dying acknowledged on Steynberg’s purported dying certificates states;
Acute respiratory failure with sudden dying, pulmonary infarctions, bilateral large 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 will probably be buried “on the Jardim das Palmeiras Cemetery in Goiania-GO”. No particular date is offered.
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 dying is very suspicious.
Following launch from jail earlier this yr after his three yr immigration sentence was commuted to a further fantastic, 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 result of Steynberg’s extradition to South Africa.
Issues get much more murky if you consider final yr Steynberg was illegally acquiring common entry to the web by means of Jail Director’s Workplace.
Final December Brazilian media reported Steynberg was utilizing his unlawful web entry to “handle his monetary affairs”. Just a few months later he’s launched and apparently now lifeless, and due for what seems to be an expedited native burial.
Apart 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 specific 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 stories South Africa’s FBI equal, the Hawks, are “making an attempt to substantiate” Steynberg’s dying.
Brigadier Nomthandazo Mbambo mentioned the unit, which has been investigating fraud at MTI for the previous three years, was making an attempt to substantiate and confirm stories of the 40-year-old’s dying.
Not 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 towards 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 overtly in South Africa.