Barry Tannenbaum

Barry Tannenbaum (born 1966) is a South African businessman who was accused of the largest corporate fraud in South Africa.[1]

Biography

Tannenbaum was born in Johannesburg in 1966.

In 2007, he moved to Sydney.[2]

In 2009, he was accused of running a R10 billion Ponzi scheme in the largest corporate fraud in South Africa. The fraud promised 880 investors returns of 200% per year in investments related to pharmaceutical imports.[3] However, South Africa never issued a formal extradition request.[2]

In February 2015, he was an Uber driver in Runaway Bay, Queensland.[2]

gollark: I have an almost-complete Rust rewrite of Skynet going here. Unfortunately, it drops all backwards compatibility (on the protocol, the client API should work the same) to make the code nicer and drops the logs feature. Thoughts?
gollark: Rodent.
gollark: Stupid Lua regexes...
gollark: Pretty sure that I *can't* since it's part of the code to be run, and also that's the same.
gollark: I tried gsubbing them to `\0` but that broke decoding somehow.

References
  1. O'Malley, Nick; Graham, Thomas (June 13, 2009). "Exposed: the Sydney man accused of $1.5 billion scam". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  2. "SA Ponzi boss Tannenbaum's new life as a taxi driver". News24. February 8, 2015.
  3. Harrison, Rebecca (June 11, 2009). "S.Africa fraud worth up to $1.2 billion uncovered". Reuters.
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