I discovered the source of funding by chance, when doing administrative tasks for an unrelated matter. The court has a special account for sponsorships and donations, most of them political, and this is managed by Nations of Earth, because it should not be possible to trace individual donations to particular cases. But a lot of money suddenly appeared in that account prior to the trial and this was what was used to fund your trip.
I traced the influx of funding back to a company with known links to the Pretoria Cartel. I asked about this, and that’s where things started to go bad for me.
Within days, I was contacted by several people with anonymous threats, and when I went to the Chief Judge with them, she suggested that I step down from the case. Even that was not an unusual request, be
