The great Zuma con

[Nom Chompsky]

How did a con man manage a meeting with the highest office in the land? Jacques Pauw and Charl du Plessis investigate.

The man sitting next to President Jacob Zuma in the photograph on page one is an *international con man and fraudster.

Willi Karl Balthasar Breuer has also been an illegal immigrant in South *Africa for the past eight years.

Despite not having a work or home address and not even holding a legal passport, the 61-year-old German businessman secured a private audience with Zuma at his Johannesburg home last September.

City Press has pieced together the *details that led to the country’s highest office meeting and engaging a con man and an illegal immigrant  – described by a security expert as a complete failure by the intelligence services to protect the president.

Breuer boasted at the meeting that he and his company, Auxilium Africa, were going to invest billions in South Africa and transform waste management, particularly in poorer municipalities.

A source close to Breuer told City Press that Breuer’s proposal was *“enthusiastically” received by Zuma.

Since his meeting with Zuma, Breuer has been trying to flog his project to *municipalities in the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.

A year after meeting Zuma, Breuer and Auxilium have not invested a cent in South Africa.

However, what the German businessman has done is to lure potential investors with claims that Auxilium is one of the biggest buyers and sellers of gold in the world, and that it has access to the Vatican’s vast stockpile of the *precious metal.

A former Breuer confidant – who did not want his name mentioned but is prepared to testify in court – said *Breuer used the Zuma meeting and photograph as a “marketing tool” to lure potential investors and boost his credibility.

City Press could not find any evidence that Breuer or Auxilium Africa –  of which he is the CEO – was vetted by the presidency or the intelligence community prior to the meeting.

Continue reading: http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/great-zuma-con/

 

[Batista]

Why doesnt this surprise me?

 

[MKFrost]

Birds of the same feather flock together......

 

[akescpt]

thought zuma was the con...

 

[ToxicBunny]

Not surprising at all..

Someone waved the potential of a huge amount of cash in front of Zuma and he probably came in his pants at the thought.

 

[yebocan]

...as Number One, I would want to know...who the hell screens my Saturday appointments..?

 

[MKFrost]

thought zuma was the con...

True, the conman better watch out, he does not know who he's dealing with....

 

[Sneeky]

LOL,
waiting to hear from max revs Mac

 

[dualmeister]

Birds of the same feather flock together......

LOL, EXACTLY what I was going to say

 

[Seriously]

So it was a case of conman met conman! What's news?

 

[grok]

Not surprising at all..

Someone waved the potential of a huge amount of cash in front of Zuma and he probably came in his pants at the thought.

This, plus Zuma's a known corrupt & seller out to the highest bidder. The fact that the ANC loves consorting with all kinds of scum that has been classified as undesirable by the first world also helps.

 

[blunomore]

City Press could not find any evidence that Breuer or Auxilium Africa –  of which he is the CEO – was vetted by the presidency or the intelligence community prior to the meeting.

And then the have the gall to say Thuli Madonsela is no expert on security matters!!