Uwe Gemballa found dead and wrapped in cellophane
 

The cellophane-wrapped body of Uwe Gemballa has been found in South Africa. Founder of well known German tuning firm Gemballa Automobiletechnik.

While details are limited, police believe Uwe's murder was tied to an illegal money laundering scheme with Czech crime boss Radovan Krejcir. According to testimony, Gemballa and Krejcir had been cahooting on nefarious transactions since 2002 but, in September of last year, problems arose. It appears Gemballa wasn't making payments on time and Krejcir told him, "...you're a dead man."

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It's a shame people get caught up in shady business. Don Aronow who built awesome speed boats got in with the wrong people and it cost him his life and I think it happened to Mickey Thompson as well.

On a side note I've heard that an orange Gemballa Mirage Carrera GT is hiding in a collectors garage just a few miles from me and I've been trying to find a way to photograph it :winkwink:

i bet the value on that car just went up significantly, plz post those pics if you take them eh.

weird people get axed over late payments...im sure he stole the money

Remind me never to do business with anyone with a name like: Radovan

don't fuck with czech mafia - yo

or any other mafia

Someone was telling me about it at Cars & Cafe but I haven't confirmed it yet. The collector has several cars including a Veyron, Maclaren SLR, Saleen S7 and an Enzo so the Gemballa is not a stretch for him. :upsidedow

I had heard there was only one orange one in the US and it was owned by some Prince that eventually wrecked it so I've been wondering if this guy bought the wrecked one and fixed it up.

There is a huge exotic car show ( Festival of Speed ) this weekend here in Orlando and this collector has brought several of his cars in the past so I'm hoping he brings it this time. I do know the new Maclaren MP4-12C, Mercedes SLS AMG and Lexus LFA are going to be there so it won't be a total bust. No matter what shows up I'll be sure to post some pics. :thumbsup

It is ze Prinz von Germany!

http://www.princegermany.com/home.html

You should check out his website....quite funny :) also has pics of his orange Mirage GT and his other cars.

Yes,they produced a limited amount of the Mirage and each of them was with a unique colour.
There is just one orange Mirage worldwide.

OMFG He has a picture of Pam Anderson in his castle :1orglaugh:1orglaugh



I was looking for a youtube video and saw some clips of it in Monaco and LA so it looks like that car got around especially now that it's been wrecked. I hope it's true that it ended up in this guy's collection.

wise words :thumbsup

met the guy a couple of times, he's an annoying arrogant loudmouth.

RIP Uwe Gemballa.

And I was already hoping they offed Uwe Boll...

What, you didn't like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, or Alone in the Dark II? :disgust

I saw this on another forum and have no idea as to it's validity.

" The story so far, from what I know is that Uwe was involved with a group of Czech criminals at the time, where they had an operation of smuggling money into South Africa as they were in hiding from the authorities. They smuggled cash into South Africa by hiding large sums of money into Uwe's cars and importing them from Germany or wherever Gemballa was based. Troubles started when a Porsche Cayenne was imported to South Africa with a million Euros hidden in the car, and when it arrived in South Africa, the cash was missing. Uwe and the boss of the Czech gang had a heated row over the missing money and threats were passed across to Uwe.

Uwe then made a "business trip" to South Africa in February 2010, thinking it had nothing to do with the Czech syndicate, where he was then subsequently kidnapped by the gang. The last contact he made with the world was with his wife where he asked her to send a million Euros down to South Africa in a lump sum, and after that he was never heard of again until his remains were found a few days ago. "

http://www.princegermany.com/home/home_pic_neu.jpg

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

fitting end to a douchebag life.