Uwe Gemballa Found Dead In South Africa

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http://jalopnik.com/5654064/uwe-gemball ... uth-africa

Uwe Gemballa — who ran a company featuring Porsche upgrades and disappeared soon after arriving in South Africa five months ago — has been found dead, shot execution-style in the head.

Gemballa's disappearance caused many outlets — us included — to question what Gemballa was involved in. The Sunday Times now claims he may have become embroiled in a money laundering scheme involving Czech billionaire Radovan Krejcir and
jalopnik wrote: "The discovery of his body threatens to blow wide open an international syndicate - stretching from Switzerland and Germany to Johannesburg - involving alleged money laundering, tax evasion, imported cars stuffed with cash and contract killings."'
So all we know now is that finding his body is only the first step in finding the truth of what in the world happened to Uwe Gemballa. (Hat tip to Amadeus_IOM!) [Sunday Times]


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Founder of a Porsche tuning company that isn't RUF. "Gemballa Tuning"
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Looking through google image results... a lot of his cars look kinda tacky.

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He went missing for a while, and turned up dead with a bullet hole in the back of his head. Sounds a little fishy... no?

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I read this earlier.

I remember him going missing a while back. Never expected that it would end like this.

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the Somalia pirates killed him :whistle:

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The Somalian pirates in South Africa? :confused:

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Pwned by geography.

Gemballa Porsches are unbelievably awesome.

Bummer. :(

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AZ89two4Tsx wrote:The Somalian pirates in South Africa? :confused:
apparently. :gotme

I blame Miss South Carolina for his post!

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serioulsy though. that suck he made some awesome porsches.

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AZhitman wrote:
Gemballa Porsches are unbelievably awesome.
:werd:

The Gemballa Carrera GT is one of my favorite cars ever.

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YES PLEASE!

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Whoa sad to hear that...Thanks for the info...

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AZ89two4Tsx wrote:The Somalian pirates in South Africa? :confused:

It was supposed to be a joke....like bwahahaha

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PapaSmurf2k3 wrote:Founder of a Porsche tuning company that isn't RUF. "Gemballa Tuning"
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Looking through google image results... a lot of his cars look kinda tacky.

No RUF, no care!

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PapaSmurf2k3 wrote:Founder of a Porsche tuning company that isn't RUF.
:rotfl

That is EXACTLY how I categorized him in my mind. High five.

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I knew about Gemballa before I learned about RUF, so for me he will always be OG. I remember his work in the 80's, long before the "tuner" thing ever happened... he rocked!

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MinisterofDOOM wrote: :rotfl

That is EXACTLY how I categorized him in my mind. High five.
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