Staff and victims of Mirror Trading International (MTI) cannot wait for Johann Steynberg’s extradition, after he was caught in Brazil when someone tipped off police in the southern state of Goiás about his location at the end of December.
Steynberg’s victims are now eagerly waiting to hear when he will be extradited to South Africa, as they all have a bone to pick with him.
He disappeared in December 2020 when he left the country for Sao Paolo in Brazil, ostensibly to visit a plantation he had bought in Panama.
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How the Bitcoin scammer was caught
According to a statement issued by the state of Goiás, Lieutenant Colonel Raimundo Coelho Pinto Júnior, commander of the Military Police’s Rapid Ostensive Intervention Group (Giro), said the group received reports about a South African who “committed crimes against the international financial system” hiding in the southern region of Goiânia, in the Alto da Glória sector.
After keeping Steynberg under surveillance for a month, the Giro identified him. When the Giro approached him, Steynberg presented false identity…