News24 | 80-year-old lawyer swindled top Joburg firm's client out of R39m - and got away with it for years

Solomon Slom, 80, who has been a senior figure at well-known law firm Fluxmans for 24 years, resigned as a director this week.

A client of one of South Africa's premier law firms, Fluxmans, was fleeced of R39 million by an 80-year-old attorney - who got away with the brazen scheme for nearly five years.

Solomon Slom, who celebrated his 80th birthday in September, left colleagues in the legal fraternity at Fluxmans law firm in Illovo, Johannesburg, baffled - not only over why he had done it, but also why no one at the firm caught him for so long, with one saying he had "never seen anything like it" in his decades of practice.

Slom, who resigned as a director of Fluxmans after nearly 24 years this week, spirited away just more than R39 million from a client's escrow account since 2019, money he was supposed to be keeping safe while a legal battle over the funds was being fought.

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