Richard Thomas Glanvill

Birth, Marriage and Death information

     Richard Thomas Glanvill was born on 20 October 1933 at Kroonstad, Orange Free State; RSA.
     He married Sheila Elizabeth Pearce after 1954.
     Richard Thomas Glanvill and Sheila Elizabeth Pearce were divorced after 1955.
     He died at Johannesburg, Gauteng, RSA.

Other information

     On 22 December 2005 it was reported:
     Another big search is on for the elusive Richard Glanville, the "missing swimmer" who turned up in a pub - and this time it's angry creditors in pursuit.
     Glanville's original disappearance at Paarden Island sparked a land, sea and air rescue operation costing up to R80 000 last week.
     Two days after he was declared missing, presumed drowned, he was found in a bar in Milnerton, where he had phoned his mother in Port Elizabeth.
     Creditors have now contacted the Cape Argus to say they are trying to recover money invested in Alpha Cash Flow Holdings, a scheme Glanville began to advertise in June.
     He has yet to respond to messages left for him by reporters, and three creditors say he has stopped answering his cellphone.
     His former wife, Sheila, told a reporter: "If you're chasing him for money, you probably won't get it.
     "There are a lot of creditors after him."
     She did not know where he was.
     On Wednesday Vishan Reddy of Johannesburg denied any involvement in Alpha Holdings, although he is named in the investment documents as having done "full due diligence" on the property developers involved in the scheme.
     Colin and Colleen Crewe, a retired couple from Wynberg, said on Wednesday that they suspected they had lost their R55 000 investment in Alpha.
     Glanville vanished after the publicity around his re-appearance and later the news that just a week earlier, a top financial journalist had warned against investing in Alpha Cash Flow Holdings.
     Personal Finance editor Bruce Cameron wrote at the beginning of December that "Glanville was recently involved in another 'guaranteed return' investment, Investigro Investments, which was closed down by the South African Reserve Bank and has since been placed under liquidation".
     The Crewes said they had invested R20 000 each in June, and their grandson another R15 000, on the strength of a "guaranteed" return of 48 percent a year. The couple said they had hoped to boost their pension, which had remained unchanged for 15 years.
     They produced Alpha Holdings documents, one of which named various "current developments" in Gauteng valued from R12,6-million to R36m, that their money was supposed to be invested in.
     In July, August, September and October Glanville had paid them a 4 percent monthly return on their investment, but they had received nothing since then, although he had promised that the "temporary glitch at the bank" would soon be resolved.
     "He is supposed to pay our capital back at the end of December, plus interest, but we have now resigned ourselves to the probability that we won't get anything back. If we do, it will be a bonus," said Colin Crewe.
     Glanville, whose "business synopsis" assured investors that he would be "accessible at all times and keep our investors informed", was now "not contactable", they said.
     "We went to his house, where his landlord told us he had evicted Richard."
     A backgrounder to various property developers referred to in one of the documents the couple produced states: "Full due diligence has been completed by Richard Glanville (CEO Alpha Cash Flow Holdings) and Vishan Reddy (CEO - FNB Direct Channel, Jhb).
     But in a telephone interview from Johannesburg, Reddy denied any knowledge of Alpha Holdings' operations, adding that he was not CEO of FNB Direct Channel, and had done no due diligence.
     "I am just an investor who invested R10 000, for which I have received R400 a month, adding up to a total of R3 600."