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Case Study. SA Claims Restitution from Lobster Kingpin

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So, what’s up with Arnold Maurice Bengis, arch South African fish-smuggler, fraudster and felon? Quite a lot, really, and none of it to do with immediate closure, as the US and South Africa doggedly pursue through the US justice system compensation of nearly USD55 million from Bengis et al. to this country for illegally harvesting millions upon millions of fish for export to the US and other destinations, using the most nefarious criminal means to achieve their ends.

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