GAUTENG. – Christopher Roos, one of the joint liquidators appointed to handle the affairs of Mirror Trading International (MTI), and two of his family members were shot dead in Rooihuis North on Monday evening. All three were declared dead at the scene.
Rekord independently confirmed that the three deceased are Christopher Roos, his mother and his son. Rekord also spoke with Susan Strydom, the legal representative of the MTI liquidators, who confirmed the three deaths. MyBroadband also reported that Roos was one of the liquidators of the Mirror Trading International estate and that sources fromNuuspodidentified Izak du Plessis Roos, his son and his mother as the three deceased.
Captain Tintswalo Sibeko, police spokesperson, confirmed to Nuusflits that Wierdabridge police have opened two murder cases and a judicial inquest following the shooting incident on Monday. No arrests have been made yet and the circumstances that led to the shooting are being investigated.
MTI, which began in 2019, attracted investors with promises of high returns from bitcoin before it collapsed in December 2020 after founder and chief executive Johann Steynberg disappeared. The Western Cape High Court found in 2023 in the case Bester NNO and Others v Mirror Trading International (Pty) Ltd that MTI's business model was an unlawful and fraudulent pyramid/Ponzi scheme. Christopher Roos was one of the joint liquidators appointed to investigate the MTI estate, trace assets and attempt to recover money and bitcoin for creditors. His role is confirmed in the 2023 SAFLII judgment, as well as in an English High Court judgment from May 2026 on the liquidators' efforts to recover bitcoin.
Riaan van Rooyen, who was also an MTI liquidator, died on 16 September 2025 after being found at the steps of his house and taken to a hospital, according to MyBroadband reporting of 16 September 2025.
Sources: SAPS, Nuuspod, Rekord, MyBroadband, SAFLII, CaseNode
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
