Theft of Passport – Used to Sabotage Immigration Status, Block Bail, and Extend Detention

THEFT OF MY PASSPORT

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Theft and Illegal Retention of My Passport

At no point has the state had any right to hold my passport. It was not a condition of either the first or second bail.

Despite this, the state (SAPS) held it secretly at first, leaving me to think I had lost it. I only discovered they had it when the IO was cross-examined by the advocate in August. Multiple requests were made between the two arrests to extend my visa, but these were ignored to prevent me from extending it, knowing another arrest would be executed as it suited the landlords (Mr. de Swardt’s clients).

After that, Sergeant Stevens ignored multiple requests from myself and my attorneys to return it.

During 2022 and 2023, my passport was held by others more than myself. The original passport from early 2022 until late 2023 (one and a half years!). Its replacement from October 2022 to the present day (almost two years), as it has still not been returned.

When I eventually got back the first passport after a year and a half, I was outside of the automatic extensions and moratoriums, significantly prejudicing my position regarding the extensions alone.

Stealing a passport is a crime. They did it twice. Withholding it from its owner is also a crime. They did it twice. This was before considering the reasons they held onto the passport, also a crime, and its use in obstructing, frustrating, and defeating the course of justice on at least a dozen occasions. Crimes in the countries from which the documentation originates and in the country in which the crimes were committed.

For example, stealing a British passport is both a crime in the UK regardless of where it happens and also a crime in the country it takes place, in this case, South Africa.

As the visa stamp inside the passport makes it a South African official travel document (something the attorneys established during the first bail application, which the magistrate accepted), it is also a crime to steal that. And a further crime to illegally withhold it.

So, Sergeant Stevens, Sergeant Duna, Belville Commercial Crime, Hout Bay, Paula, Peter, Johan, Denis, Mario, Andre, Mercy, and anyone else involved in either of the thefts or the illegal withholding have broken a whole series of laws.

Both passports were stolen because they knew as a foreign national it would cause me significant problems, make me vulnerable in multiple ways, and allow them to exploit the situation.

Because they stole my passport, they would have seen the stamp from the Home Affairs department granting my visa extension into 2022. They knew about the automatic extensions and moratoriums. They certainly knew my passport had been handed to Sergeant Duna, and not myself, making extending my visa impossible.

But that did not stop all of them from alleging I had not extended my visa intentionally, and for some inferred nefarious reason. The often-used phrase that I was in the country illegally.

My visa status is referenced in every news article, in Paula’s fake/copy Instagram profiles of the villas, and in every submission in the civil and criminal courts, including using the issue to sabotage both bail applications and astonishingly to lay a baseless charge of breaching the immigration act.

And all the while keeping quiet about their crucial role in the whole thing and talking as if they have learned this news like everyone else. With Keith using phrases in the court submissions like “it has come to my attention,” “I am led to believe,” and “I have recently learned.”

Cleverly, deceitfully, and selectively telling half a story. Referencing the lack of a visa extension but completely failing to explain the reasons. In the application filed in conjunction with my arrest, they had the audacity to reference rent arrears for August, September, and October, while failing to mention the landlord put me in prison, where I spent August, tried to keep me there, and got a 500-metre exclusion around the property.

The most sinister of these deceits was their plan to create victims in the absence of them, hoping they could be misrepresented as fraud, especially when I was incarcerated and unable to defend myself or point out the truth.

I have no idea whether Paula admits knowledge of the plan or not. I doubt she would. But as she was kept informed of every move Keith, Mr. de Swardt, and Denis made, it is impossible she was not.

Their entire campaign is full of these immoral and illegal tactics and manoeuvres, consistently painting me as the villain and them as the victims.

FACT FILE

THE CONSORTIUM

SAPS had no legal right to hold my passport, yet they secretly withheld it, blocking my visa extensions and aiding my wrongful incarceration. I only discovered this during cross-examination, revealing they had illegally kept it for over a year and a half. Despite repeated attorney requests, Sergeant Stevens refused to return it.

The stolen passports contained clear evidence of my visa extensions, proving SAPS knowingly misrepresented my status. This fabricated “illegal stay” was used to deny bail, smear my reputation, and justify my arrests—all while those responsible pretended they had only just “learned” of my visa situation.

Serg Stevens Retention of My Passport to Prosecute Maliciously

During 2022 and 2023 my passport was held by others more than myself.

The original passport from early 2022 until late 2023 (one and a half years!). Its replacement from October 2022 to the present day (fast approaching two years!), as Paula has still not returned it.

When I eventually got back the first passport AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF, I was outside of the automatic extensions and the majority of the moratoriums. Thereby significantly prejudicing my position, purely in relation to the extensions alone.

Stealing a passport is a crime. Withholding it from its owner is also a crime.

They did it twice.

Just as holding onto a passport is a crime.

And that is before you factor in the reasons they held onto the passport, also a crime.

And then factor in its use in obstructing, frustrating and defeating the course of justice. Of which at least a dozen different occasions.

Crimes in the countries from which the documentation originates and in the country in which the crimes were committed.

For example, stealing a British passport is both a crime in the UK regardless of where it happens and also a crime in the country it takes place, in this case South Africa.

As the visa stamp inside the passport makes the passport a south African official travel document, (something the attorneys establish during the first bail application when they made the point, one which the magistrate accepted, was that the visa within a foreign passport is a south African official travel document and afforded all the protection a south African passport would be) it is also a crime to steal that. And a further crime to illegally withhold it.

So, Sergeant Stevens. Sergeant Duna, BC, HB, Paula, Peter, Johan, Denis, Mario, Andre, Mercy and anyone else involved in either of the thefts or the illegal withholding have broken a whole series of laws.

Both passports were stolen because they knew as a foreign national it would cause me extremely significant problems, make me vulnerable in multiple ways, and allow them to exploit the situation.

The hypocrisy is similar to the rent arrears allegation. Trying to financially ruin me and remove the very source form which rent is paid, then publicly vilifying me for rent arrears as if arrears (had they existed) were intentional. Keeping quiet the fact they were the ones trying to cause both issues.

The similar hypocrisy of:

inducing a tenant into a lease with the promise of a very secure and long tenure++ in exchange for the tenant carrying out considerable improvements to the property.
then labelling those very improvements as “damage” to enable the landlord to deny the tenant that long tenure and bring the tenancy to a very premature end.

(the long tenure being the sole way the tenant would recoup the outlay, allowed to stay for the period of the improvements and then denied the period over which to realise repayment and a return).

All while claiming not to have known about or given consent to the very business model they signed up to.

So, too the visa and immigration issue. Disberry and Van Wyk stealing and keeping my passport, knowing the damage it would do. WDS, Keith Inge, everyone involved (except me) knew Paula had stolen and kept my passport and handed it to WDS.

THE OUTCOMES AS EVIDENCE

LEFT: A WhatsApp message sent by P Disberry and her partner Peter Van Wyk. Denis Dalton and Johan Schalkwyk had told them the replacement passport had arrived and Mr de Swardt had instructed them to steal it. Which they did by getting Andre Du Rand (personal security) to do so. This was the message sent afterwards

I was told that this too was passed to Sergeant Stevens. But I have no evidence of that. But he did hold the original which was in SAPS possession for well over a year. Regardless, as he was aware of every facet of the operation against me, I am confident he will have been told of the theft and retention of the replacement passport

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Precisely because they stole my passport, they will have seen the stamp from the Home Affairs dept granting my visa extension into 2022. And I’m quirt sure they well knew about the automatic extensions and moratoriums. They certainly knew my passport had been handed to Serg Duna, and not myself, they knew therefore that extending my visa was an impossibility.

But that did not stop ALL of them feeding the narrative and alleging I had not extended my visa intentionally, and for some inferred nefarious reason. The often-used phrase that I was in the country illegally.

My visa status is referenced in every news article, in Paulas fake/copy Instagram profiles of the villas, and in every submission in the civil courts. Importantly, also in every submission in the criminal courts. Including using the issue to sabotage both bail applications and astonishingly to lay a baseless charge of breaching the immigration act.

And all the while keeping quiet about their crucial role in the whole thing and talking as if they have learned this news like everyone else. With Keith using phrases in the court submissions of “it has come to my attention”, “I am led to believe”. “I have recently learned.”

Cleverly, deceitfully and selectively telling half a story. Referencing the lack of a visa extension but completely failing to explain the reasons. In the application filed in conjunction with my arrest, the audacity of referencing rent arrears for august, September, October, while failing to mention the landlord put me in prison, where I spent the august, tried to keep me there and got a 500-metre exclusion around the property.

The most sinister of these deceits, being their plan to create victims on the absence of them, in the hope they could be misrepresented as fraud, in particular when I was incarcerated and unable to defend myself or point out the truth.

I have no idea whether Paula admits knowledge of the plan or not. I doubt she would. But as she was kept informed of every move Keith, WDS, Denis made, it is impossible she was not.

Their entire campaign is full of these immoral and illegal tactics and manoeuvres. Consistently painting me as the villain and them as the victims.

Returning to the passport, the basic information is listed below.

FACT FILE

MANIPULATING THE VISA NARRATIVE

SAPS and their associates deliberately withheld my passport, knowing it contained proof of my visa extension and that I was covered under automatic extensions. Despite this, they falsely claimed I had intentionally failed to renew my visa, using it to justify my arrests, sabotage bail applications, and file baseless immigration charges.

Meanwhile, they publicly pretended to have "just learned" of my visa status, carefully omitting their role in creating the issue. They even referenced rent arrears while ignoring the fact that they had imprisoned me and secured a 500-meter exclusion from my own property. Their calculated deception extended further—manufacturing "victims" in my absence to misrepresent the situation as fraud.

My Passport Journey

DECEMBER 2020 ARRIVED IN CAPE TOWN. 3 MONTH VISITORS VISA GIVEN.

JANUARY TO MARCH 2021 HOME AFFAIRS DEPT ISSUES AUTOMATIC EXTENSION OF VISITORS VISAS FOR EVERYONE ARRIVING DURING THE PERIOD I DID

APRIL TO JUNE 2021 EXTENSION OF THE POLICY OF HOME AFFAIRS DEPT ISSUING AUTOMATIC EXTENSION OF VISITORS VISAS

JULY TO SEPTEMBER 2021 EXTENSION OF HOME AFFAIRS DEPT AUTOMATIC EXTENSION OF VISITORS VISAS

OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 2011 EXTENSION OF HOME AFFAIRS DEPT AUTOMATIC EXTENSION OF VISITORS VISAS

NOVEMBER 2021 THE VISA AGENCY SAID THE AUTOMATIC VISA EXTENSIONS MAY END SOON, SO I APPLIED FOR EXTENSION AND WAS GRANTED A VISA EXTENSION TO 2022. MY PASSPORT WAS STAMPED AND I COLLECTED IT.

JANUARY TO MARCH 2022* HOME AFFAIRS DEPT ISSUES A MORATORIUM ON VISA EXTENSIONS DUE TO HUGE BACKLOG WHICH LASTS THROUGH TO 2024

JANUARY 2022 FIRST THEFT OF PASSPORT: GAIL & ASSOCIATE KATHI TAKES MY PASSPORT AND R15,000 VISA AGENCY FEE FOR EXTENSION AND THE START OF PERMANENT VISA APPLICATION AND DISAPPEARS TO GERMANY WITH BOTH. SOMETHING I ONLY DISCOVER WHEN THE AGENCY CALL TO ASK WHEN THEY WOULD RECEIVE MY PASSPORT AND FEE.

FEBRUARY 2022 FINALLY GET PASSPORT BACK

FEB/MARCH 2022 SECOND THEFT OF PASSPORT: PAULA DISBERRY USES GPS TO TRACK MINI AND STEALS MY PASSPORT FROM THE GLOVEBOX. PURPOSELY NOT TELLING ME SO THAT WHEN I COME TO LOOK FOR IT, I ASSUME I HAVE MISPLACED IT AT ONE OF THE PROPERTIES AS WE WERE CONSTANTLY MOVING BETWEEN THEM DUE TO BEING FULL, AND OR DOING WORK TO THEM.

MAY 2022, I GIVE UP FINDING THE PASSPORT AND ORDER A REPLACEMENT

JUNE 2022 PAULA PASSES THE PASSPORT TO WDS (DATE IS AN ESTIMATE)

JULY 2022 WDS PASSES THE PASSPORT TO SERGEANT DUNA

4 AUGUST 2022 SERG DUNA TELLS MY ATTORNEYS ORDINARILY HE WOULD LET A SOMEONE CHARGED WITH THEFT OF THE TVS LEAVE HOUT BAY ON BAIL BUT DUE TO MY NOT HAVING A PASSPORT OR A VISA EXTENSION HE MUST KEEP MY AND FURTHER THAT THE HOME AFFAIRS DEPT ARE LOOKING FOR ME AND HAVE DEMANDED HE DO SO (A LIE). HE FAILS TO TELL THE ATTORNEY MY PASSPORT IS IN HIS POCKET. SOMETHING NONE OF US KNEW UNTIL WELL INTO THE BAIL APPLICATION.

9 AUGUST 2022 FIRST APPEARANCE, WDS AND SERG DUNA TELL THE PROSECUTION TO OBJECT TO BAIL AS THEY CONSIDER ME A FLIGHT RISK. FAILING TO MENTION THEY HOLD MY PASSPORT. PROSECUTION AGREES RESULTING IN ME BEING SENT TO POLLSMOOR.

9 TO 21 AUGUST 2022 BAIL APPLICATION BECOMES FULL TRIAL. CONDUCTED OVER FOUR DAYS. DURING WHICH WHEN CROSS EXAMINED BY MY ADVOCATE SERG DUNA ADMITS THEY HAVE HELD MY PASSPORT THE WHOLE TIME.

AUGUST 2022 WDS AND SERG STEVENS OBTAIN FALSE AFFIDAVIT FROM A HOME AFFAIRS EMPLOYEE. ONE THAT IGNORES BOTH MY ACTUAL EXTENSION AND THE HOME AFFAIRS AUTOMATIC EXTENSIONS THROUGHOUT 2021. TELLING THE COURT I WAS ILLEGAL AS OF 23 MARCH 2021. WHICH WAS AN IMPOSSIBILITY.

AUGUST 2022 BAIL GRANTED. WITH NO CONDITIONS. INCLUDING NO CONDITION FOR SAPS TO HOLD MY PASSPORT.

AUGUST 2022 HOWEVER, WHEN WE ASK FOR IYTS RETURN THEY REFUSE.

SEPTEMBER 2022 FURTHER REQUESTS FOR THE PASSPORT’S RETURN REJECTED, ILLEGALLY.

OCTOBER 2022 FURTHER REQUESTS FOR THE PASSPORT’S RETURN REJECTED, ILLEGALLY.

OCTOBER 2022 REPLACEMENT PASSPORT ARRIVES

OCTOBER 2022 I MAKE APPOINTMENT AT VFS FOR VISA EXTENSION

OCTOBER 2022 PAULA ORDERS WDS, JOHNAN AND DENIS TO STEAL MY NEW PASSPORT

OCTOBER 2022 MARIO HELPS PREP THE PACK FOR SUBMISSION, ANDRE TAKES ME. ON BEING SEEN KEY DOCUMENTS ARE MISSING AND I AM TOLD TO RETURN WHEN I HAVE THE MARIO CLAIMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN. ON THE WAY BACK HOME ANDRE SUGGESTS HE LOO AFTER THE PASSPORT BEING THAT I AM DITZY/DISORGANISED/ FORGETFUL/DISTRACTED

OCTOBER 2022 ON PAULA’S ORDERS, ANDRE STEALS MY PASSPORT

ANDRE PASSES THE PASSPORT TO DENIS AND JOHAN

DENIS AHD JOHAN PASS THE PASSPORT TO WDS TO PASS TO PAULA DISBERRY OR DO SO DIRECTLY

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2022 AT SOME POINT SERG DUNA PASSES MY ORIGINAL PASSPORT TO SERG STEVENS

NOVEMBER 2022 FURTHER REQUESTS FOR THE PASSPORT’S RETURN REJECTED. ILLEGALLY

14 DECEMBER 2022 ARREST

19 DECEMBER 2022 REPEAT OF THE AUGUST ATTEMPT, PORTRAYING ME AS A FIGHT RISK, DESPITE THE FACT THEY HAD HAD MY PASSPORT BY THEN FOR THREE QUARTERS OF A YEAR, AND THEY KNEW THE REPLACEMENT HAD ALSO BEEN STOLEN. FURTHER, THE MAGISTRATE IN AUGUST HAD ALREADY RULED I WAS NOT A FLIGHT RISK.

DEC TO MARCH 2023 WDS / SERG STEVENS USE FALSE EVIDENCE TO DELAY THE STATE OF URGENT BAIL APPLICATION

DEC TO MARCH 2023 2ND FALSE HOME AFFAIRS AFFIDAVIT. WDS AND SERG STEVENS OBTAIN FALSE AFFIDAVIT FROM A HOME AFFAIRS EMPLOYEE. ONE THAT IGNORES BOTH MY ACTUAL EXTENSION AND THE HOME AFFAIRS AUTOMATIC EXTENSIONS THROUGHOUT 2021. TELLING THE COURT I WAS ILLEGAL AS OF 23 MARCH 2021. WHICH WAS AN IMPOSSIBILITY.

14 MARCH 2023 ON THE MORING OF THE START OF HE BAIL APPLICATION, THE PROSECUTION WITHDRAW ALL THE CHARGES WDS / SERG STEVENS INSIST ON AN IMMIGRATION CHARE BEING ‘KEPT’ ALTHOUGH NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE.

14 MARCH 2023 SERG STEVENS TRIES TO USE MY LACK OF A PASSPORT AND VISA EXTENSION TO INFER THAT MAKES ME A FLIGHT RISK AND THEREFOR BAIL SHOULD BE SET AT R100,000. MAGISTRATES REJECTS THIS ALSO.

14 MARCH 2023 BAIL SET AT R10,000. NO CONDITIONS OTHER THAN RESIDING AT SET ADDRESS.

NO CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE PASSPORT. MAGISTRATE CONFIRMS IT SHOULD BE RETURNED TO ME.

MARCH 2023 REQUESTS FOR THE PASSPORT’S RETURN REJECTED. ILLEGALLY

MARCH 2023 KEITH BROAD POST ARREST MANOEUVRES: THE APPLICATION IN THE CIVIL COURT THAT INCLUDES ALL THEIR HOME NADE EVIDENCE

APRIL 2023 FURTHER REQUESTS FOR THE PASSPORT’S RETURN REJECTED. ILLEGALLY

APRIL 2023 FALSE AFFIDAVIT PROOFED BY SERG STEVENS SAYING THE IMMIGRATION ISSUE WAS PART OF THE DECEMBER ARREST, DESPITE HAVING NOT ONE MENTION IN ANY OF THE PAPERWORK OR TH AREST

MAY 2023 FURTHER REQUESTS FOR THE PASSPORT’S RETURN REJECTED. ILLEGALLY

MAY 2023 ATTORNEYS REQUEST PERMISSION FROM THE SENIOR STATE PROSECUTOR TO SUBMIT REPRESENTATIONS

JUNE 2023 REPRESENTATIONS SUBMITTED

JULY 2023 SSP REQUEST A FURTHER MONTH (TOTAL OF TWO MONTHS) MTO FULLY INVESTIGATE THE CONTENTS

FURTHER REQUESTS FOR THE PASSPORT’S RETURN REJECTED. ILLEGALLY

AUGUST 2023 SENIOR STATE PROSECUTOR CONFIRMS THE TWO MONTH INVESTIGATION COMPLETED AND CHARGE ALSO WITHDRAWN

SEPTEMBER 2022 DESPITE HAVING NO RIGHT TO STILL HOLD THE PASSPORT SERG STEVENS STIL REFUSES TO RETURN IT. EVENTUALLY AGREEING TO LOAN IT TO ME FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS ONCE I HAVE A VFS APPOINTMENT TO EXTEND MY VISA AND BRING IT BACK TO HIM. THAT WAY HE KNEW THE DATE OF SUBMISSION AT THE VFS OFFICE.

SEPTEMBER 2023 IMMEDIATELY APPLY TO VFS

OCTOBER 2023 APPLICATION LIKELY SABOTAGED.

JUNE 2024 MY ONLY COURSE OF ACTION NOW IS TO SUBMIT A LETTER OF GOOD CAUSE TO THE DIRECTOR OF HOME AFFAIRS TO NORMALISE MY VISA STATUS.

IT HAS NOW BEEN ALMOST TEN MONTHS SINCE THE FINAL CHARGE WAS WITHDRAWN AND AM STILL TRAPPED BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTIONS.

It has now been almost ten months since the final charge was withdrawn and am still trapped because of their actions.

FACT FILE

THE TIMELINE

This timeline clearly illustrates a systematic effort to obstruct my legal status, using fabricated charges and illegal withholding of my passport to create a false immigration violation. Despite multiple court rulings in my favor, SAPS, private individuals, and corrupt officials continuously interfered, ensuring I remained unable to extend my visa, apply for residency, or leave South Africa without consequence. Even after all charges were withdrawn, the damage to my legal standing persists, leaving me trapped by their calculated abuse of power.

The stamp in my passport showed my extension to 2022

Anyone who had had possession of or seen my passport would also have seen the stamp from the Home Affairs Dept confirming my extension in 2022.

So, those like Keith, Paula, WDS that consistently claimed I had never extended and also claimed I had been avoiding extending did not do so under some false assumption but knowing it was a lie.

The Other Stamps in My Passport

During their ownership of my passports, they had direct access to my travel history. You will note it included a couple of European countries, (from memory Paris - France, Ibiza, Mykonos), and that was it. Not one country known to have lax banking laws, no countries known for their tax-free havens or secret accounts. Nothing in fact other than Ibiza and Mykonos. Known only for their beaches, boys, boobs and bikinis,

Accounts such as those I am accused of having, require the account holder to open the account in person. I am sure there are exceptions, but any accounts where the account hold demands secrecy will do. Otherwise, they will find themselves vulnerable to all sorts of money laundering legislation breaches regardless

My travel habits are neither those of a rich man or a man hiding money. Nor are they the travel plans of someone on the run or fleeing. The regular European trips, e.g. to Pris with Loris, Mykonos, Ibiza, also Loris, all require going through customs when leaving the UK and entering customs whichever country you are entering, and on leaving that country and entering the UK.

Where I wanted, I would have been stopped at every one of those points.

Just as I would have been stopped when leaving (“fleeing”) the UK in 2020.

Both my passport and its replacement passports are biometric. I paid more for so that I could have that facility on them. so, unless my eyeball is also fake, every time I go through customers my eyeball is canned, cross referenced to however main frame computers these things are linked to, before the green light come son and you walk through.

In addition, were I wanted by Interpol, the UK police etc, does anyone really think that when I submitted my replacement application, I would have opted for the more expensive direct door to door courier option, thereby providing my home address? A) the UK Passport Officer would not have sent a new passport for a criminal on the run and B) if they ever did, it would have been hand delivered by the police or Interpol to arrest me.

If I was fleeing the UK, it must have been the slowest flee in herstory. Starting mid 2020 with the trip itself at the end of December 2020

It all very well and its certainly very easy to simply make up stuff. “Darren fled the UK” … “Darren has a fake passport” “Darrens artwork collection is stolen or the proceeds of crime” It requires zero evidence to make these kinds of statement, and the vast majority of the people who make the allegations are not required to prove them the vast majority of the time.

It is surprisingly difficult to prove you didn’t do something, i.e. I didn’t flee. Other than pointing to the obvious, where the application of common sense provides the answer. Unfortunately, by then no one is listening anyway.

They will have read or heard the allegation, it will have been noted and saved to the memory banks. Highly unlikely the first thought would be to question the validity of the allegation. And the unique power of the scammer narrative is that anything the scammer says to refute the allegations is dismissed and the words of a scammer

A publication like News24 is supposed to stand for the truth. Repeating allegations that are fabrications is not journalism. And allowing a situation where the consortium get to constantly tailor the allegations to fit the known evidence or lack of, is appalling journalism. They are all on record in regard to the many allegations made.

The onus is on the journalist to establish the facts, and to be led by the facts, no matter how many people there are on the consortiums side and how few on mine.

There is a reason we called them the consortium. The landlords, their staff their proxies, their specific SAPS, were always going to sign from the same hymn sheet. If there were fifty landlords, the allegations would still be fabrications. What better indication of conspiracy, collusion and a consortium than a large number of people, all saying the same thing, that all evidence points to being false.

FACT FILE

THE CONSORTIUM

My travel history, visible in my stolen passport, shows only standard European trips—none to tax havens or secret banking jurisdictions.
If I were fleeing or wanted by authorities, biometric passport scans at customs would have flagged me at every border.
False claims of absconding were spread without evidence, while media outlets like News24 failed to verify facts, amplifying the consortium’s fabrications.

Excerpt from the summary

In July 2022, the PI and 8 criminal thugs for hire forced their way into one of the villas, beat up and ejected the housekeeping staff, and illegally seized the property, prompting us to file urgent spoliation proceedings in the High Court to recover the property, as well as an interdict and punitive costs.

In response, the PI and landlord filed a false charge of "breaking and entering" (into my own home) and theft of three televisions. As this did not deter me, they arrested me on those fabricated charges and, with the help of a corrupt officer they had hired for the purpose, objected to bail on two grounds. 1) they changed the allegation just moments before to one of theft of the contents of a backroom that were in essence junk and were in fact in safe storage which the owners knew and had access to, to one of highly valuable items that were suddenly worth a million rand (for the purpose of putting the offence into a schedule 5 on a par with rape and murder) and even more importantly, 2a) claiming absurdly I was a flight risk, 2b) that I had intentionally evaded and avoided extending my visa since March 2021, 2c) that the Home Affairs dept considered me illegal as of 31 March 2021

Never mentioning or revealing that the same officer had my passport in his pocket and had illegally and secretly held it for months, after one of the owners had stolen it and given it to the PI, who in turn gave it to the officer, in order to make an extension possible. Something that only became apparent during the advocate's cross examination of the IO.

I had already ordered a replacement passport several months earlier, but due to Brexit, the UK passport office had its own backlog. When that arrived, they arranged for it to be stolen as well, and even brazenly sent WhatsApp messages to them, telling me to contact them if I needed to see my passport again.

I won the bail application, and the magistrate ordered an investigation into the entire matter. A few weeks later, the case was dismissed. But the corrupt officer still had my passport and refused my and my attorney's requests to return it. At the time, I informed the attorneys that as the first attempt to remove me was only partially successful, they would try again. As expected, they did just that. In mid-December, I was illegally arrested again, with the PI leading the police again, and at the same time, the PI, aided by selected SAPS officers, carried out an entirely secret, unofficial, and illegal raid at my other property in Llandudno, arresting and removing the staff and occupants, taking the keys, and taking possession of the property, before letting those arrested go free and handing over possession to the PIs client; the very same landlord who had instructed the July 2022 property invasion, the assaults, that laid the false charges, and then tampered with the bail application

Doing the same with me and others at my primary residence, where they arrested me, with the PI again leading the police, and where another of the PI's clients, walked in 5 minutes after I was taken away, to be handed the keys and vacant possession by the PI.

Two simultaneous illegal evictions disguised as arrests; bypassing the need for court proceedings, due process, court orders, legal costs, or any other form of official sanction, allowing eviction on demand and implying that the landlord had no involvement in the process and thus no liability.

When appearing for bail It was granted for R2,000 with no conditions, and the PI and IO then persuaded the prosecution to object based on a series of lies, including the fact that more charges were being filed, other issues, and, most importantly, the same visa and immigration issues raised and subsequently dismissed in the previous bail application. Since then, the IO has illegally withheld my passport, specifically to deny me the ability to extend my visa, for which he is now standing in front of a court, requesting that they deny my bail application and then prosecute me.

Something he continued to use at each appearance to delay the start of my bail application, which he was able to do for three months, allowing me to rot in Pollsmoor prison while their clients, the landlords, consolidated their gains. When the magistrate finally had enough of the delays and ordered the start of the urgent bail application, on first sight the prosecution immediately withdrew all charges. To keep me in Pollsmoor even longer, the IO insisted on prosecuting the immigration charge and tried having my bail application denied on that basis. The charge was that I "failed to leave RSA on 23 March 2021," stating that I had never extended my visa since landing in 2020, despite the IO knowing that the automatic extensions covered me for the entire year of 2021, that I had extended at the end of 2021 ((the stamp weas in my passport e illegally held and in the Hime Affairs documents that accompanied two highly suspicious affidavits), which took me into 2022, and that in 2022 my passport was stolen, handed to him, and he had kept it secretly and illegally, before the august arrest, after the august bail, after the withdrawal of the charges, and continuously up to that point.

Regardless, I was granted bail, and the magistrate ordered an investigation, but nothing has been done. In June 2023, we petitioned the senior state prosecutor by submitting Representations to withdraw the charge. The 50-pages of document repeated many of the allegations listed above and others, and as a result of which the SSP investigated for two months before confirming the charge's withdrawal.

Despite all of this, the IO refused to return my passport, instead telling me that I could borrow it for a few days to apply. The purpose of which was not just to frustrate me in multiple ways, but so that he knew when the application was being submitted, so he and the PI could use contacts with the Home Afraid Department and or VFS to ensure any application was rejected.

NB: At this point, they were still illegally holding my devices, equipment, data, and documents that they had seized in December and were supposed to hand back in March when the charges were withdrawn, but they refused. a) to use for an illegal fishing expedition, b) to ensure I had little evidence of their campaign, and c) to scrutinise and sabotage my attempts to normalise my immigration status, which included hacking and diverting emails. So, I have never received confirmation from VFS regarding the result, but I can guarantee it will be a decline regardless.

FACT FILE

THE CONSORTIUM

The PI and landlords orchestrated false charges, illegal evictions, and wrongful arrests to seize properties without court orders.
SAPS officers withheld my passport, fabricated immigration violations, and delayed bail to keep me imprisoned while landlords consolidated their gains.
Despite all charges being withdrawn, my passport and devices were illegally retained to obstruct my immigration status and suppress evidence of their misconduct.

Excerpt from the summary

In July 2022, the PI and 8 criminal thugs for hire forced their way into one of the villas, beat up and ejected the housekeeping staff, and illegally seized the property, prompting us to file urgent spoliation proceedings in the High Court to recover the property, as well as an interdict and punitive costs.

In response, the PI and landlord filed a false charge of "breaking and entering" (into my own home) and theft of three televisions. As this did not deter me, they arrested me on those fabricated charges and, with the help of a corrupt officer they had hired for the purpose, objected to bail on two grounds. 1) they changed the allegation just moments before to one of theft of the contents of a backroom that were in essence junk and were in fact in safe storage which the owners knew and had access to, to one of highly valuable items that were suddenly worth a million rand (for the purpose of putting the offence into a schedule 5 on a par with rape and murder) and even more importantly, 2a) claiming absurdly I was a flight risk, 2b) that I had intentionally evaded and avoided extending my visa since March 2021, 2c) that the Home Affairs dept considered me illegal as of 31 March 2021

Never mentioning or revealing that the same officer had my passport in his pocket and had illegally and secretly held it for months, after one of the owners had stolen it and given it to the PI, who in turn gave it to the officer, in order to make an extension possible. Something that only became apparent during the advocate's cross examination of the IO.

I had already ordered a replacement passport several months earlier, but due to Brexit, the UK passport office had its own backlog. When that arrived, they arranged for it to be stolen as well, and even brazenly sent WhatsApp messages to them, telling me to contact them if I needed to see my passport again.

I won the bail application, and the magistrate ordered an investigation into the entire matter. A few weeks later, the case was dismissed. But the corrupt officer still had my passport and refused my and my attorney's requests to return it. At the time, I informed the attorneys that as the first attempt to remove me was only partially successful, they would try again. As expected, they did just that. In mid-December, I was illegally arrested again, with the PI leading the police again, and at the same time, the PI, aided by selected SAPS officers, carried out an entirely secret, unofficial, and illegal raid at my other property in Llandudno, arresting and removing the staff and occupants, taking the keys, and taking possession of the property, before letting those arrested go free and handing over possession to the PIs client; the very same landlord who had instructed the July 2022 property invasion, the assaults, that laid the false charges, and then tampered with the bail application

Doing the same with me and others at my primary residence, where they arrested me, with the PI again leading the police, and where another of the PI's clients, walked in 5 minutes after I was taken away, to be handed the keys and vacant possession by the PI.

Two simultaneous illegal evictions disguised as arrests; bypassing the need for court proceedings, due process, court orders, legal costs, or any other form of official sanction, allowing eviction on demand and implying that the landlord had no involvement in the process and thus no liability.

When appearing for bail It was granted for R2,000 with no conditions, and the PI and IO then persuaded the prosecution to object based on a series of lies, including the fact that more charges were being filed, other issues, and, most importantly, the same visa and immigration issues raised and subsequently dismissed in the previous bail application. Since then, the IO has illegally withheld my passport, specifically to deny me the ability to extend my visa, for which he is now standing in front of a court, requesting that they deny my bail application and then prosecute me.

Something he continued to use at each appearance to delay the start of my bail application, which he was able to do for three months, allowing me to rot in Pollsmoor prison while their clients, the landlords, consolidated their gains. When the magistrate finally had enough of the delays and ordered the start of the urgent bail application, on first sight the prosecution immediately withdrew all charges. To keep me in Pollsmoor even longer, the IO insisted on prosecuting the immigration charge and tried having my bail application denied on that basis. The charge was that I "failed to leave RSA on 23 March 2021," stating that I had never extended my visa since landing in 2020, despite the IO knowing that the automatic extensions covered me for the entire year of 2021, that I had extended at the end of 2021 ((the stamp weas in my passport e illegally held and in the Hime Affairs documents that accompanied two highly suspicious affidavits), which took me into 2022, and that in 2022 my passport was stolen, handed to him, and he had kept it secretly and illegally, before the august arrest, after the august bail, after the withdrawal of the charges, and continuously up to that point.

Regardless, I was granted bail, and the magistrate ordered an investigation, but nothing has been done. In June 2023, we petitioned the senior state prosecutor by submitting Representations to withdraw the charge. The 50-pages of document repeated many of the allegations listed above and others, and as a result of which the SSP investigated for two months before confirming the charge's withdrawal.

Despite all of this, the IO refused to return my passport, instead telling me that I could borrow it for a few days to apply. The purpose of which was not just to frustrate me in multiple ways, but so that he knew when the application was being submitted, so he and the PI could use contacts with the Home Afraid Department and or VFS to ensure any application was rejected.

NB: At this point, they were still illegally holding my devices, equipment, data, and documents that they had seized in December and were supposed to hand back in March when the charges were withdrawn, but they refused. a) to use for an illegal fishing expedition, b) to ensure I had little evidence of their campaign, and c) to scrutinise and sabotage my attempts to normalise my immigration status, which included hacking and diverting emails. So, I have never received confirmation from VFS regarding the result, but I can guarantee it will be a decline regardless.

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THE SUMMARY

In July 2022, the PI and hired enforcers violently seized a villa, leading to High Court action. In retaliation, false criminal charges were laid against me, and SAPS officers, working with the PI, fabricated evidence to justify my arrest.
My passport was stolen and secretly withheld by SAPS to block visa extensions, framing me as an immigration violator to manipulate bail proceedings.
Despite all charges being withdrawn, my passport, devices, and documents remain illegally confiscated, used to obstruct my legal standing and sabotage my attempts to normalize my immigration status.

"Corruption is simply crime without conscience."

George Richard Marek