Christian Botha, Private Investigator

Case Files  |  Debt Relief Scam Exposed

Credits
Article:  Eddie Botha
Courtesy of Daily Dispatch

EAST LONDON:  A bizarre world of financial deals involving murdered Queenstown attorney Manie Beukes and his alleged killer Martin Greyvenstein has been uncovered by a private investigator acting for the widow of a slain boxing promoter.

Greyvenstein, who handed himself over to the police after he had allegedly shot Beukes in front of his law offices in October last year, is presently out on bail. In a sworn statement Gompo clinic nurse Vuyiswa Moshani said she had been introduced to Greyvenstein through Amedee Prollius, who runs the East London debt collecting firm, Pro Collections. Prollius told the Daily Dispatch that Greyvenstein used his city premises to run his Queenstown debt relief company.

Moshani is the widow of Zolani Moshani, a Mdantsane boxing promoter and taxi owner, who was shot some years ago by unknown gunmen after returning from a boxing tournament. Moshani said she approached Pro Collections after she had failed to repay the balance of a R150 000 loan for which she had given a Mercedes Benz Sprinter, registration number BMS049EC, as surety. Moshani said Greyvenstein advised her to place all her moveable assets into the name of his company, Pedimenta Investments and pay him R1600 per month. She said he had told her that this would prevent the sheriff from attaching any of her assets.

Greyvenstein also arranged with Beukes, a business colleague of his at the time, to handle her legal work. During subsequent meetings it was also arranged that Moshani would hand over two of her taxis to Greyvenstein, who would operate them for her through a transport business in Queenstown. Moshani said Greyvenstein told her that he would pay her R3000 per week in royalties to operate the vehicles as taxis. Moshani obtained the services of East London private investigator Christian Botha after Beukes' murder. Botha traced the three vehicles and found that the ownership of two had been changed to a close corporation, Erf 419 Kenton Beleggings, including the vehicle which had been recovered after it was given as surety to her debtor. Moshani stated that this was made possible after Greyvenstein had told her that documents pertaining to the ownership had been backdated to allow it to be recovered. This vehicle was later sold by Kenton Beleggings to the Dutch Reformed Church in Witbank for R168000. The third vehicle was still registered to WesBank.

In a subsequent deal Queenstown taxi driver Pinkie Xaso gave Greyvenstein a Toyota Venture as a deposit to buy the WesBank registered Sprinter. Moshani said she believes that this vehicle was later given by Greyvenstein to a funeral parlour in settlement for personal debt. Moshani told Botha that she did not give Greyvenstein or Beukes permission to sell or change ownership of her vehicles other than for the one that was supposed to have been sold in settlement for her initial debt. The Greyvensteins have been prohibited by their lawyer from talking to the press.

PI finds tangled business web in Q'town case

EAST LONDON:  Company searches by private investigator Christian Botha show that murdered Queenstown attorney Manie Beukes, his alleged killer Martin Greyvenstein, and close family members were all involved in more than one business venture.

Botha uncovered this information while trying to recover assets and money from the Queenstown attorney and his alleged killer which belonged to the widow of a slain boxing promoter and taxi boss Zolani Moshani. According to a February 1 letter, signed on behalf of Greyvenstein, Pedimenta Investments CC claimed to own the movable assets of Gompo clinic nurse Vuyiswa Moshani.

A search of Pedimenta showed the members to be Sheryl Ursula Burmeister and Ernest George Littleford, partner of accounting firm Charteris & Barnes. Littleford however told Botha that it was a shelf company which had been sold to Beukes and Greyvenstein and of which the company records had not been updated. Burmeister, whose address is given as PO Box 2105, Komani, is the daughter of Greyvenstein. She has since changed her name back to Greyvenstein after her divorce. Yesterday she told the Daily Dispatch that she had no comment. Greyvenstein's wife, Mathilda, is also the registered member of EMTH Power Systems. Littleford is still mentioned as a member of this shelf company.

Mathilda Greyvenstein is also the sole member of Natgrey Irrigation Systems, a close corporation, the address of which is also listed as PO Box 2105, Komani. A search of Erf 419 Kenton Beleggings, which took over ownership of two of Moshani's vehicles, showed the names of various members. They include Beukes, the man who was allegedly shot by Greyvenstein, and Mathilda Greyvenstein. In the records she is still registered under Mckenzie, her former married name. Other members are Johannes Albertus de Lange, Debbie-Ann de Lange, Magdalena Elizabeth de Lange, Peter Quentin Marais and Abraham van Zyl Bekker.

According to motor vehicle registration records a Mercedes Benz Sprinter, which belonged to Moshani, is now registered in the name of Kenton Beleggings. Another of Moshani's Sprinters, which had been registered by Kenton Beleggings, has since been sold to the Dutch Reformed Church in Witbank.

Back to Case Files