Diamond mogul slams ‘unethical’ raids at business, home

• Published date: 26 April 2024
• Author: Siyabonga Sithole
• Publication title: Cape Times, The (Cape Town, South Africa)

On Wednesday, the sheriff of the court in Cape Town conducted a raid at a property while a separate raid was also carried out at offices linked to Liebenberg in Kempton Park, following an order by FDG Liquidators, the liquidators of Liebenberg’s company Tariomix, better known as Forever Diamonds and Gold

According to reports, the liquidators were in search of movable and immovable assets funded by Tariomix investors.

Speaking from his Kempton Park offices yesterday after having prised the gates of the offices open, Liebenberg said he was being unfairly targeted by the liquidators as these properties are not his and have nothing to do with the company under liquidation, Tariomix.

“The Cape Town home is not mine but belongs to my wife and her children while the offices here house various companies and not just Tariomix. We know that the liquidation was brought in February 2023. The liquidators were busy talking on WhatsApp groups by October 2022, which was illegal. We tried to address this whole situation with the courts and they then gave us a date for April.

“This is shocking news because I received a call from the Protea Hotel that some people involved wanted R20 million and they will waive the whole liquidation.

“We have got a situation here at the moment where this whole thing has been manipulated. Eventually, they managed to get the liquidation of one company. I have been operating here for 14 years and they are taking furniture belonging to another company and we went to court because the dates were not right and they postponed the case,” he said.

Last week, the Mahikeng High Court in North West ruled that a provisional liquidation order issued in February last year be made...