{"id":557155,"date":"2026-02-17T13:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/africrypt-founders-back-in-south-africa-years-after-platform-collapse-report\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:52:51","slug":"africrypt-founders-back-in-south-africa-years-after-platform-collapse-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/africrypt-founders-back-in-south-africa-years-after-platform-collapse-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Africrypt founders back in South Africa years after platform collapse: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDIvMDE5YzZiYjEtMGExNy03ZTFiLTgzMjItZmRmYzI0YWQ0M2JiLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Africrypt founders back in South Africa years after platform collapse: Report\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Raees and Ameer Cajee are back in South Africa years after Africrypt\u2019s collapse, while investors still struggle to serve legal papers.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s so-called \u201cBitcoin Brothers,\u201d Raees and Ameer Cajee, have quietly returned to the country years after the collapse of their crypto investment platform Africrypt, according to a new TV investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A segment aired Sunday by investigative program \u201cCarte Blanche\u201d said the pair is residing inside the gated Zimbali Estate in KwaZulu-Natal, MyBroadband <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cryptocurrency\/629377-the-south-african-brothers-who-allegedly-stole-over-r1-billion-and-are-hiding-in-plain-sight.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on Monday. According to the report, journalists attempted to approach the property but were blocked by private security. <\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">The team also reportedly traced the brothers to a holiday location in Umhlanga and a recent address in Johannesburg, but failed to make direct contact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bitcoin-brothers-return-south-africa-africrypt-cajee-carte-blanche\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators say Raees and Ameer Cajee are back in South Africa years after Africrypt\u2019s collapse, while investors still struggle to serve legal papers. South Africa\u2019s so-called \u201cBitcoin Brothers,\u201d Raees and Ameer Cajee, have quietly returned to the country years after the collapse of their crypto investment platform Africrypt, according to a new TV investigation. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-557155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}