CRIMINAL OFFENCES COMMITTED BY SAPS & THE CONSORTIUM
The Astonishing Criminality
If I had to sit down and explain what happened to me over the course of this harrowing campaign, it would start with a few simple truths: one of which is that these were not isolated incidents; another, that the arrests and detentions served the interests of landlords reclaiming their newly refurbished properties—not justice.
What happened to me was a coordinated, premeditated campaign—a systemic abuse of power involving the South African Police Service (SAPS), private individuals, and a web of corruption that infiltrated every part of the legal system. This is my story, and in telling it, I hope to make it impossible for anyone to ignore the scale of the injustice I’ve faced.
The attached document, "The Criminal Offences Committed by SAPS and the Consortium," is a table of offences—over 300 crimes—deliberately orchestrated against me, not just by rogue individuals but as part of a sinister, organized conspiracy that spanned several months. These crimes were carried out by Sergeant Serg Stevens, Sergeant Duna, and several private individuals who used the legal system as a weapon, manipulating police resources, falsifying evidence, and obstructing justice to achieve their goals.
At the heart of this document is the wide-reaching and deeply embedded corruption that permeated this case from start to finish. The police, the courts, and even private actors conspired to disrupt my life, tarnish my name, and systematically strip me of my rights. The table in this document lays bare the scope of those offences in legal terms, but behind every charge is a personal story—a moment where Serg Stevens, Paula Disberry, or one of the many others involved made a conscious decision to fabricate evidence, ignore the law, or actively break the rules to serve private, corrupt interests.
FACT FILES: EXPOSING THE LIES, REVEALING THE TRUTH
What transpired was not a series of isolated incidents, but rather a coordinated, premeditated campaign involving the South African Police Service (SAPS), private individuals, and a pervasive web of corruption. The aim was not justice but rather the interests of landlords reclaiming their newly refurbished properties.
This abuse of power spanned several months and involved more than 300 crimes orchestrated by police officers and private actors, including Sergeant Serg Stevens, Sergeant Duna, and others, all working in concert to disrupt my life and tarnish my name. These crimes were not accidental; they were deliberate acts of manipulation, falsification of evidence, and obstruction of justice.
The Offences: A Personal and Systemic Attack
This table is not simply a list of crimes—it is a map of the destruction of my life, revealing just how deeply entrenched the corruption is. When I was arrested in December 2022, it wasn’t because there was evidence of any crime. It wasn’t because I had broken any law. It wasn’t even because there was a legitimate investigation into my actions. No, the arrests and charges stemmed from a private vendetta driven by people like Wouter de Swardt—a private individual with no official standing—who used SAPS to further his own agenda, weaponizing the state against me for personal gain.
These arrests, made without warrants, were only the beginning. What followed was a deliberate campaign of criminality by those who had the power to destroy lives without consequence.
Consider, for example, the theft of my passport. Serg Stevens, in collusion with De Swardt, Duna, and others, unlawfully seized my passport. This wasn’t an incidental oversight. It was a calculated decision to prevent me from extending my visa and to obstruct my legal rights. Without my passport, I was trapped—unable to leave the country, unable to access basic rights, and, most importantly, vulnerable to even more serious fabricated charges. This act alone was a direct violation of my constitutional rights, but it was only one piece of a much larger scheme.
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THE 300+ CRIMINAL OFFENCES COMMITTED
This document details over 300 offenses, highlighting a coordinated campaign to destroy my life through deliberate misconduct, involving both private individuals and state officials.
The crimes include fraud, theft, unlawful arrests, and defamation, each part of a broader conspiracy to manipulate and harm me.
The Systemic Nature of the Corruption
This wasn’t the work of a few rogue officers. Entire SAPS units—Hout Bay SAPS and Bellville Commercial Crime—were complicit in covering up these offences, turning law enforcement into a tool for private interests.
The length of time these crimes took place—from August 2022 to March 2023—underscores the planning and coordination involved. It wasn’t just a few bad apples; this was a well-orchestrated campaign. The arrests were strategically timed to prevent me from contesting illegal civil evictions, while Serg Stevens and others continued their attack on me even after I was imprisoned.
FACT FILES: COORDINATED CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
According to Section 18(2)(a) of the Riotous Assemblies Act, those who conspire to commit an offense are equally guilty, meaning the conspiracy extends beyond those directly involved.
These actions reflect systemic corruption and abuse of power, orchestrated by those who should have upheld the law. The offenses outlined are not isolated mistakes but intentional, coordinated acts of harm.
The Table of Offences
The table provides a comprehensive breakdown of over 300 offences, detailing the specific statutes violated, the individuals involved, and the nature of the misconduct. This is not just a legal technicality—it is a roadmap of the systematic destruction of my life, carefully executed by those who should have been upholding the law. But even if you don’t read every line of the table, I want you to walk away with this understanding: the acts outlined in this document are not just abstract legal violations. They are part of a broader, deeply troubling pattern of corruption and misuse of power that affected me personally and continues to impact my life.
These acts are not isolated mistakes or incompetence. They are the direct result of deliberate, coordinated efforts to mislead, manipulate, and destroy anyone who stood in the way of those with the power to orchestrate such abuse.
This table outlines a comprehensive list of criminal offences committed during the coordinated campaign involving multiple individuals, private actors, and state officials. The scope of these crimes reveals not only direct violations of South African law but also a vast web of conspiracies designed to achieve common objectives through deliberate, coordinated actions.
South African law, specifically under Section 18(2)(a) of the Riotous Assemblies Act, 1956, makes it clear that any person who conspires with another to commit an offence is equally guilty of that offence.
This means that for every act of fraud, theft, unlawful arrest, or defamation committed by an individual, there is a corresponding "conspiracy to commit" offence for all others who participated in or supported the act, whether directly or indirectly.
THE 300+ CRIMINAL OFFENCES COMMITTED
This document details over 300 offenses, highlighting a coordinated campaign to destroy my life through deliberate misconduct, involving both private individuals and state officials.
The crimes include fraud, theft, unlawful arrests, and defamation, each part of a broader conspiracy to manipulate and harm me.
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The Hundreds of Crimes
As a police officer, Serg Stevens had a duty to uphold the law. Instead, he weaponized his authority to serve private interests, making these crimes even more egregious.
Serg Stevens unlawfully arrested multiple people without legal justification or probable cause, solely to detain them unlawfully in service of private individuals. These detentions were not conducted to investigate or punish crimes but were an end goal in themselves.
Serg Stevens fabricated evidence by creating, altering, manipulating, misrepresenting, and concealing it to mislead the judicial process and produce specific outcomes—committing perjury in the process. He breached legal procedures and violated constitutional rights by deliberately failing to follow due process. Instead of honouring his responsibilities, Serg Stevens misused his power and authority to pursue the illegal objectives of private individuals. These included malicious prosecutions, miscarriages of justice, theft of my homes and possessions, illegal evictions, protecting criminals, and conspiring to embezzle, drug, torture, and even murder.
Serg Stevens committed widescale fraud by omission—intentionally withholding critical information—all for the premeditated purpose of creating victims and fabricating evidence for yet another malicious prosecution, unlawful arrest, detention, and further injustices.
All of this was underpinned by obstruction of justice—wilfully interfering with the administration of justice, perverting the course of justice, and defeating the ends of justice. For months, Serg Stevens disrupted and impeded legal processes, intentionally working to prevent justice from being served.
Between the various key players—Paula Disberry, Peter Van Wyk, Keith Broad, Inge Broad, Wouter de Swardt, Ragi Moonsamy, Mario Boffa, Dennis Dalton, and Johan Schalkwyk—the number of crimes committed runs into the hundreds. All of these crimes were aided, executed, or disguised by Serg Stevens and SAPS (especially SAPS Bellville Commercial Crime and Hout Bay SAPS), and to varying degrees, by others involved.
Therefore, all are guilty of hundreds of conspiracy offences, including some of the most serious crimes on the statute books. This was not a pursuit of a criminal but a sinister, organized, premeditated conspiracy to commit dozens of crimes.
FACT FILES: EXPOSING THE LIES, REVEALING THE TRUTH
Serg Stevens, as a police officer, abused his authority to serve private interests, unlawfully arresting individuals without justification and fabricating evidence to manipulate the judicial process. His actions included perjury, withholding critical information, and obstructing justice, all aimed at pursuing malicious prosecutions and illegal objectives.
His involvement, along with others like Paula Disberry, Peter Van Wyk, and Wouter de Swardt, led to a wide range of crimes, constituting a premeditated conspiracy to commit dozens of serious offenses.
The Crimes, Misconduct, Corruption, And Unlawful Actions Of Serg Stevens & Belville Commercial
Their crimes include, but are not limited to:
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Four unlawful arrests, with three different people being illegally arrested.
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Three wrongful imprisonments of two different people, including the property manager Ollie Sokanyile, who was imprisoned out of spite for interfering with Mr. de Swardt six months earlier. Ollie had gone to aid the guests and housekeeper being evicted by Mr. de Swardt and eight thugs, who then assaulted them, threw them onto the streets, changed the locks, and squatted in the property. I was imprisoned twice: from August 4 to 23, and from December 14, 2022, to March 14, 2023.
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The August arrest was intended to disrupt the spoliation proceedings I had initiated, while the December arrest was to cover up two illegal evictions and facilitate a court application to reclaim the property. Keith Broad, his client, prepared the appeal application just before my arrest and submitted it the morning after, confident that my arrest had eliminated his opponent, allowing him to expedite the application through the courts while Mr. de Swardt and Serg Stevens kept me incarcerated.
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To create the narrative of a scam and fabricate hundreds of victims in the absence of actual victims, they did not inform the platform of my arrest and the change of control of the villas. This wrecked the holidays of hundreds of people who had booked prior to my arrest, as they were not informed that the properties were no longer under my control. Each group arrived to find themselves homeless. Attempts were then made to manipulate them away from resolution, such as contacting platforms or credit card companies to create losses and manipulate misrepresented fraud charges.
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Two dozen illegal attempts to take over the properties, with SAPS either complicit or intentionally looking the other way.
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Mr. de Swardt and SAPS used the arrest as a cover for the unlawful evictions, presenting the landlords with the keys to their properties just minutes after my departure.
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The assistance of SAPS during the evictions.
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The secret, unofficial, and illegal operation at one of my Llandudno properties while everyone was distracted by the spectacle of my arrest at the other
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The use of remand to remove opponents.
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Executing arrests without warrants, as in August, or obtaining arrest warrants already rejected by magistrates, as in December. They did so with a docket made entirely of contributions from one of those same landlords, prepared six months earlier, ready to use when an arrest was considered most opportune.
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The lies told by the investigating officer to the court, the prosecution, and the attorneys to justify the refusal to release me and the objection to bail, including claims that I was wanted by the Home Affairs department for deportation, that I had never extended my visa since arriving, and that I was illegal as of March 23, 2021. All the while, that same officer had my passport in his possession.
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The theft of my passport and its illegal retention by Mr. de Swardt, Sergeant Duna (Mr. de Swardt’s proxy in the first arrest), and Sergeant Stevens (Mr. de Swardt’s proxy in the second arrest) were all done with the explicit intention of preventing visa extensions. This was used to object to bail and to prosecute me.
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The harassment and intimidation of witnesses, with individuals like Mr. de Swardt impersonating a police officer and purporting to have powers and authority he did not have. SAPS officers similarly lied to potential witnesses, threatening them with ten to thirty years in prison unless they testified to a prewritten script and signed prewritten affidavits, promising them immunity if they agreed.
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The protection order obtained through demonstrable perjury, with the full knowledge of SAPS Hout Bay, served on me while I was in their cells in August for almost a week waiting to be taken to Wynberg Magistrate’s Court. This included false claims that he lived at the property and that the thugs of Mr. de Swardt were mine, sent to intimidate his family, obtaining a 500-meter exclusion zone around the property, even though everyone knew I lived there, and it was us who were attacked.
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Ignoring the protection order I had obtained months earlier, as well as the arrest warrant for Mr. Broad issued after he breached it, and the letters from my attorney to the commander of Hout Bay, demanding the execution of the warrants.
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The baffling ability to control significant state resources, including the equally baffling motivation of a fully armed special task force team raiding my home, and the two dozen personnel involved in that arrest for three white-collar matters that the original investigating officer had dismissed as civil disputes and had closed the files. No guns, narcotics, or threat of violence justified such a spectacle.
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The astonishing fact that Mr. de Swardt, a man of no official rank or position, was able to motivate, manage, and manipulate an investigation. He did so with fabricated evidence, leading the arrest and directing two dozen police officers from STF, SAPS, and Hawks. There was no question in the minds of anyone present that day who was in charge, giving orders and taking control.
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The presence during the arrest, both at the illegal raid and arrest at the other Llandudno property and at my home, not just of one private investigator, but three. One of these private investigators had embezzled R1.2 million a few weeks earlier and planned to drug and torture me to get the details of my bank accounts, then murder me, dispose of the body, and spin a story that the scammer had run off to spend his millions. This was underpinned by the fabricated online petition and the Media24 content.
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The intentional rigging of the bail applications, in some cases months in advance, by initiating malicious prosecutions so it appeared there were other live dockets. They also failed to close the August docket despite it being thrown out by the judge, to misrepresent it as a live or current investigation when they decided the next arrest was needed.
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And in other cases, e.g., the August arrest, by changing the charge itself as I appeared in court from the theft of three TVs to the theft of the junk contents of a back room that everyone knew was in safe storage and then suddenly inflating the value of the items to R825,000 purely to put it as a Category 5 offence, making bail far harder to obtain.
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The initial charge of “breaking and entering” my own home and the “theft” of three old TVs, which the owners knew had been taken by guests weeks earlier and had been replaced with brand new TVs.
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The bogus immigration charge, which was a legal impossibility, accompanied by an affidavit given four months after the arrest, attempting to insert it into proceedings where it had no place.
And the list literally goes on and on.
FACT FILES: EXPOSING THE LIES, REVEALING THE TRUTH
The crimes committed include multiple unlawful arrests, wrongful imprisonments, illegal evictions, and fabrication of evidence, all aimed at advancing private interests while obstructing justice. Key actions involved wrongful arrests and detentions, theft of a passport, manipulation of the legal process, and harassment of witnesses.
The illegal use of state resources, including a special task force, and the orchestration of a private investigator's involvement further exemplified the coordinated nature of these crimes, which also included the rigging of bail applications and falsifying charges.
Consipiracy and Derivative Liability
The concept of Conspiracy and Derivative Liability further extends legal culpability to encompass offences committed as part of a broader conspiracy, even if specific individuals were not directly involved in those acts. Under this principle:
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Joint Responsibility: All conspirators are liable for offences committed in furtherance of the conspiracy, whether or not they directly participated in those specific offences. This includes actions carried out by co-conspirators that align with the common objective of the conspiracy.
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Shared Intent and Purpose: By agreeing to participate in a conspiracy, every individual assumes responsibility for the foreseeable offences committed as part of achieving the conspiracy's goals.
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Broad Scope of Liability: Even if an individual conspirator did not personally engage in a particular criminal act, their association with the conspiracy renders them legally accountable for the outcomes of the group’s coordinated actions.
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A police officer who unlawfully arrests an individual at the direction of the conspirators implicates not only themselves but also those who conspired to orchestrate the arrest.
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Similarly, the theft of documents, property, or money during the campaign implicates all conspirators, regardless of whether they were physically present or directly involved in the theft.
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Where one commander breaks he law assisting in a specific aspect of the campaign, they are as involved in the other parts of the campaign for which they were not an essential component.
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Where one landlord, engages in a series of criminal acts to advance the agenda of the themselves and the group, for example in sharing out the various actions amongst the grouping, all of the landlords are culpable they are liable and culpable.
This framework underscores the gravity of the offences committed during the campaign, as every individual involved in planning, facilitating, or endorsing the actions is equally culpable.
FACT FILES: EXPOSING THE LIES, REVEALING THE TRUTH
The principle of Conspiracy and Derivative Liability holds all conspirators responsible for crimes committed as part of a broader conspiracy, even if they did not directly engage in the specific acts. Anyone who agrees to participate in a conspiracy assumes responsibility for the foreseeable criminal acts that further the common objective.
This means that even if a conspirator wasn’t physically involved in a particular crime, their association with the conspiracy makes them legally liable for the group’s actions. For example, a police officer carrying out an unlawful arrest at the direction of conspirators or a landlord participating in a series of criminal acts to further the conspiracy would both be equally culpable for all acts committed within the campaign.
This legal framework highlights the collective responsibility of all individuals involved in the coordinated campaign.
Key Highlights of Offences
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Intimidation and Harassment: Acts designed to threaten and intimidate, including physical threats, harassment, and creating a hostile environment to force victims into unlawful actions.
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Corresponding conspiracies: Coordinated plans to instill fear and coerce compliance, implicating all involved parties.
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Theft and Conversion: Systematic theft of valuable possessions, including millions in rental premiums, personal property, passports, and documents critical to immigration status.
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Corresponding conspiracies: Pre-planned efforts to steal and conceal these items, involving all collaborators.
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Unlawful Arrests and Detentions: Executing arrests without valid warrants, detaining victims on false charges, and abusing police powers to achieve strategic objectives in civil disputes.
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Corresponding conspiracies: Collaborative actions to misuse state resources and judicial processes to orchestrate these detentions.
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Fraud and Perjury: Filing false affidavits, providing misleading evidence in court, and perjuring themselves to facilitate evictions, arrests, and legal victories.
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Corresponding conspiracies: Jointly preparing, submitting, and supporting fraudulent statements to mislead the courts.
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Obstruction of Justice: Suppressing evidence, sabotaging investigations, and interfering with judicial processes to prevent accountability and shield perpetrators.
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Corresponding conspiracies: Coordinated actions to destroy evidence, influence witnesses, and obstruct legal remedies.
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Cybercrimes and Defamation: Disseminating false information online, creating fake profiles, and waging a smear campaign to destroy reputations and isolate victims.
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Corresponding conspiracies: Planning and executing coordinated misinformation campaigns involving multiple actors.
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"De Swardt said he and 'some strong men' had 'gone to empty' Broad's house. However, the big break came when he received information that Russell and his boyfriend were in a five-star guesthouse in Pringle Bay.”: T
"As police systematically searched the house, the bystanders – quite a few curious people had already started congregating on August Street – only heard the screams of his boyfriend Lorez de Rodez Benavent as he yelled at the police.”:
"Darren Russell, a British citizen who came to South Africa on a visitor’s visa in 2020, has been arrested on charges of fraud relating to the subletting of luxury properties along Cape Town's Atlantic Seaboard.”
Legal Framework for Accountability
The principle of Conspiracy and Derivative Liability means that each party in the conspiracy bears responsibility for all offences committed to further the group's shared objectives. Coupled with Section 18(2)(a) of the Riotous Assemblies Act, this establishes a robust legal foundation to prosecute not only the direct perpetrators but also the architects, enablers, and beneficiaries of these offences. This legal framework ensures that:
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Accountability is collective: All parties involved in the conspiracy are held accountable for every criminal act that furthered the conspiracy’s aims.
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Intent is shared: The shared intent to achieve unlawful objectives implicates every conspirator in the resulting crimes.
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No one escapes liability: Even those who played peripheral roles or acted as enablers are culpable for the campaign’s outcomes.
FACT FILES: SELECTIVE USE OF EVIDENCE
WhatsApp chats between key individuals—including Mercy, Ollie, Paula, Gail, and myself—directly contradict Mercy’s allegations, exposing them as false. Yet, when confronted with this evidence, the defense shifts to the subjective argument of "lived experience."
Had the messages supported their claims, my lived experience would be dismissed entirely, and the chats would be treated as undeniable proof. This double standard highlights the hypocrisy in how evidence is selectively acknowledged and weaponized.
A Systematic Campaign of Criminality
The offences detailed in this case highlight the extraordinary scale of misconduct and the depth of planning involved. This was not a series of isolated incidents but a systematic campaign where every crime served a broader purpose. The conspiracies extended across:
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Unlawful property seizures: Theft and conversion under the guise of civil disputes.
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Judicial manipulation: False charges, perjury, and misuse of legal processes.
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Coordinated arrests and detentions: Designed to disrupt and sabotage the victim’s ability to defend themselves.
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Smear campaigns: Leveraging media and cyber channels to destroy reputations and isolate targets.
FACT FILES: EXPOSING THE LIES, REVEALING THE TRUTH
This case reveals a coordinated campaign of misconduct with each crime serving a broader purpose.
It includes unlawful property seizures disguised as civil disputes, judicial manipulation through false charges and perjury, coordinated arrests to disrupt defense, and smear campaigns to damage reputations. These offenses were all part of a systematic effort to harm and control the victim.
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