UNITED AVIATION GROUP OWNER JONATHAN WOLPE HAS BEEN ARRESTED
The owner of UNITED AVIATION GROUP (South Africa) Jonathan Wolpe was arrested today in Johannesburg, as the editors of the Global Aviation Register of Defaulter companies BLACKLIST.AERO have just learnt.
This was reported to us by EYEWITNESS NEWS journalist Orrin SINGH who previously described one of Jonathan Wolpe's fraud episodes in his article. It was on this episode that Volpe was arrested. It is hoped that in the future he will be held legally accountable for his other acts that we wrote about earlier.
After BLACKLIST.AERO wrote about Jonathan Wolpe's debts a year ago and many contractors stopped working with him, he had a choice: either sell some of his considerable real estate and at least some of his favourite thoroughbred horses in order to pay his debts and restore his good name.
Or embark on more and more scams just to maintain his luxurious lifestyle, organizing horse racing tournaments and football competitions under the auspices of the UNITED AVIATION GROUP. He chose the second, and here is the result... The other heroes of our articles also always have a choice. I wish they would not repeat the mistakes of Jonathan Volpe, but reality tells a different story.
The BLACKLIST.AERO editorial staff will continue to follow the fate of one of the main actors of the cases in the BLACKLIST.AERO Register.
P.S. End how he jumped, how he jumped...
Artem Degtiarov, Chief editor at BLACKLIST.AERO
The year 2025 turned out to be one of the most difficult for aviation as a whole. One can talk endlessly about the heavy legacy of the post-COVID era, which manifested itself in a global disruption of supply chains and, as a consequence, a shortage of new aircraft and spare parts, delays in maintenance, and so on. Added to this were geopolitical risks—at times it seems the whole world wants to fight more than to create. We are living through a turning point, where the old world order has already been completely destroyed, while the new one has not yet taken on any clear shape. Aviation, in this process, is a litmus test reflecting all of these dynamics.
Creditors of SmartLynx Unite Under the Auspices of BLACKLIST.AERO
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