How the schemes worked, and how they came apart.
Long reads on South African crime: the cons, the heists, the boardroom frauds and the court cases that closed them. Every story is built from court records, official findings and published reporting.
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What we cover
Cons
Ponzi schemes, fake investments and the people who believed in them.
Heists
Cash-in-transit robberies, vault jobs and the planning behind them.
Boardrooms
Accounting fraud, state capture and the paper trail that followed.
Courts
What the judgments found, and what happened to the money.