'Underworld' businessman Mark Lifman's court cases to be heard next yearMark Lifman’s cars auctioned to pay back SarsIn just 17 minutes on Wednesday, Mark Lifman’s cars were sold at a fraction of the market price.
Two of the cars were bought by Lifman’s business associate Jerome “Donkie” Booysen, who attended the auction in Montague Gardens with his brother, Colin Booysen and several other men.Rael LevittRael Levitt (born 10 May 1971) is an entrepreneur and business owner from South Africa and ... One of the early investors in Auction Alliance was Mark Lifman, an alleged Cape Town gangster. The company opened in several cities, including ...
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Alleged underworld boss Mark Lifman says he “fully co-operated” with SARS, owes R388m....
“SARS and I have been engaged in a dispute for some time now. I have always fully co-operated with SARS in all respects as required by law. I voluntarily offered my immovable assets to be secured in favour of SARS. I was under no obligation to do so, but did so as a sign of good faith and at my own peril,” said Lifman.
City Press reported on Sunday that Lifman, who is reportedly one of South Africa’s biggest underworld bosses, was handed a tax bill of R388m.
He also reportedly hoped to get help in his tax battle, with SARS commissioner Tom Moyane allegedly approached to go easy on Lifman because of his political connections.
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How Must SARS Issue a Notice in Terms of s172(1) of the Tax Administration Act?
The facts of the case are that during an inquiry in terms of section 50 of the Act into notorious Cape Town underground boss, Mark Lifman’s affairs, SARS found that Lifman and a number of close corporations (“CC’s”) of which he was the sole member, owed approximately R13 million in taxes.
Judge rules to acquit Lifman - once again
Date: 29 Sep 2009
MILLIONAIRE businessman Mark Lifman has for a second time been acquitted of having sex with boys under the age of consent. Dressed in a black pinstripe suit and flanked by a bodyguard, the entrepreneur formerly in fashion, nightclubs, horse racing and property develop-ment, sped away from the Atlantis Regional Court in his black Mercedes-Benz with tinted windows, a free man.
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Jeff Lifman (2013)
Jeff Lifman passed away on 26 October 2013
Businessman in bid to beat racing ban
Four years after he received a life ban from horseracing for intimidating and bribing jockeys to throw races, a Sea Point businessman is set to legally battle his warning off by the Jockey Club of South Africa.
Former racehorse owner and current fashion boss Mark Lifman suggests that he might have been the victim of collusion by the very jockeys he was found to have intimidated into attempted race-fixing activities.
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Notorious club under hammer
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It's billed as the underworld auction of the century.
A notorious nightclub with en-suite bedrooms, a swanky apartment block that used to be a drug den, and a 1971 Rolls-Royce fit for a porno boss, all go under the hammer in Cape Town later this month following a High Court ruling relating to two of Cape Town's most controversial figures - one of them deceased.
The assets were part of a shared business empire belonging to controversial businessman Mark Lifman and the late Yuri "The Russian" Ulianitskaya, who was assassinated in a hail of bullets three years ago while leaving a Cape Town restaurant.
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Battle for control of the doors and the 'drugs' Igor “the new Russian” Russol emerged from the door of his Bree Street brothel, swiftly preceded and followed by four men in black suits and sunglasses, who darted from the entrance and fanned out across the street.
He did not look sideways as he sauntered to a nearby coffee shop. In contrast, his bodyguards were brisk and alert, walking in front, behind, in the street and on the opposite sidewalk. In the coffee shop Russol seated himself close to a corner, his back to the walls. The bodyguards sat inside as well as outside.
His interview with the Mail & Guardian last month was his second in two weeks. On both occasions he had dark things to say about the city’s underworld kingpins.
“The main reason I start fighting now is because of Yuri,” he said. “These people who kill him do big mistake. I want these people to know life come full circle.”
Russol followed his childhood friend, Yuri “the Russian” Ulianitski, from Russia to Cape Town in 2001. Ulianitski established himself as a strip-club owner with Sea Point businessman Mark Lifman and was shot and killed in his car in Milnerton in 2007.
According to Russol, his friend had become too powerful and a threat to others in the underworld: “I’m still waiting, for the time is coming when we find who killed Yuri.” Everybody knew who did it, he said, “but we not got strong proof”.
Drive-by shooting
He said the same people were behind the March 2011 assassination of Cape Town security boss Cyril Beeka, who was also killed in a drive-by shooting.
“Beeka was a real strong man. When he was in Cape Town everything was nice and under control, because people respected him and maybe they were a little scared.”
Beeka established a nightclub security company in the 1990s called Pro Access, gaining a reputation for extortion, violence and drug-pushing—charges he and his lieutenants denied. Beeka was too powerful, much more than Ulianitski, Russol said. “Not one people stay on top forever.”
In another restaurant, across town, a towering, muscle-bound brute of a man seated himself on a couch with an incredulous smile. Former bouncer Andre Naude also made sure his back was to the wall, in a position affording him a clear view of the establishment’s entrance.
He was accompanied by one of his managers, the stocky Richard van Zyl, formerly of Beeka’s Pro Access.
With Lifman, Naude moved quickly to benefit from Beeka’s death, filling the gap with a new security company.
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Cape gangster gets VIP invite to Jacob Zuma’s party
Band of Brothers: ANC Integrity Commission’s Fransman report contains some disturbing nuggetsIn a tumultuous week for South African electoral politics, who can even remember suspended Western Cape ANC leader Marius Fransman’s urgent application two weeks ago to the Cape High Court, seeking reinstatement as well as demanding the release of an ANC Integrity Commission report into charges of sexual assault? While the Western Cape ANC might be eating DA election dust, a startling nugget of information lies buried in court papers. An allegation that Fransman had introduced President Jacob Zuma to leaders of the 28s – the most feared and violent gang in the Western Cape. By MARIANNE THAMM.
The accusation is not new. In November 2015 the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism published a shocking report that President Jacob Zuma had, prior to the 2011 local government elections, met with feared Western Cape gang bosses at his official residence Groote Schuur.
The meeting, which amaBhungane confirmed with two independent sources, had been facilitated by known Durban underworld figure, Lloyd Hill, and was aimed at garnering support for the ANC in the region. The gang leaders pledged to back Marius Fransman in his push to win back the Western Cape from the DA. Present at that meeting, said amaBhungane, were Quinton “Mr Big” Marinus and leader of the Americans gang, Sanie American (real name Igshaan Davids).
Days after the report ANC Western Cape spokesperson, Yonela Diko, lashed out, denying the meeting had even taken place and dismissing the amaBhungane investigation as “frivolous, incoherent and pathetic”. Diko added that “gangsters may grab headlines now and again, but nobody respects them”.
Respect for another notorious Cape Town underworld figure, Mark Lifman, arrived a short while later, however, in the form of a VIP invitation to President Jacob Zuma’s birthday rally at Vygieskraal in Cape Town on 12 April 2014. Lifman, wearing an ANC T-shirt with Zuma’s face stretched across a toned chest, was snapped backstage at the bash chatting with Fransman.
“To see this support for the ANC makes me very happy, it is a wonderful birthday present for me. Tata Madiba, who loved the ANC until the end of his days, must be smiling today in his resting place! Dis duidelik! Ons gaan stem en ons gaan wen,” Zuma laid it on for the crowd.
Fast-forward to January 2016 as the next political A-bomb hit the Western Cape ANC when Fransman, after failing to deliver the region in 2011 and 2014 without any political consequences, offers a young woman, Louisa Wynand, employment days before he is due to leave on a road to trip to Rustenburg to celebrate the ANC's 104th anniversary. He sends her a series of WhatsApp messages.
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