Investors turn to court for ‘millions owed from high-roller forex whizz kid’

Businessman is aggrieved after friend's son promised huge returns from a forex investment scheme

03 March 2025 - 04:30 By Tania Broughton

He portrayed himself as a forex and commodities trading whizz kid, but now a young Durban North man has been provisionally sequestrated for allegedly stealing millions from his investors and possibly running a pyramid scheme...

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