Editing AFRINIC (section)

====Lawsuit due to senior management's corruption====

=====Afri Holdings Ltd & Others vs AFRINIC=====
In June 2020, AFRINIC was taken to court by one of the men whose name and company have been linked to the heist of the African Internet resources committed by a founding member of AFRINIC, Ernest Byaruhanga. In a notice sent to individuals and organizations that hold IP addresses in the African region, the then AFRINIC CEO Eddy Kayihura stated that an application for an interim injunction against AFRINIC was brought before the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of Mauritius.
The application was lodged by Afri Holdings Ltd, Netstyle A. Ltd, and Elad Cohen. Internet investigator Ron Guilmette has linked Netstyle and Cohen's e-mail address to suspicious activity in South Africa, caused by large chunks of South African Internet Protocol address space, worth millions of dollars on the open reseller market, being stolen by AFRINIC's ex-top senior executive Ernest Byaruhanga.
Affected IP addresses included a block that belongs to [[Sasol]], and blocks that appear to belong to Tredcor, Afrox, Woolworths, and SITA. Documents obtained in August 2019 also showed that Cohen is a director and shareholder of Afri Holdings Ltd.<ref>https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/363694-man-connected-to-african-ip-address-heist-sues-afrinic.htm/ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://afrinic.net/finance/amp?view=article&id=2821&catid=15/ |title=List of Court Cases involving AFRINIC - AFRINIC - Regional Internet Registry for Africa |website=afrinic.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221224726/https://afrinic.net/finance/amp?view=article&id=2821&catid=15/ |archive-date=2021-12-21}}</ref>

=====Logic Web Inc vs AFRINIC=====
On 1 October 2021, Logic Web Inc initiated an application for an interim injunction against AFRINIC.
LogicWeb Inc has received a 196.52.0.0/14 block under the registered  name of "ITC", which is a made-up name for a fake corporate entity that never existed, and one that was invented by the ex-AFRINIC senior management Ernest Byaruhanga as a WHOIS cover story for his IP addresses famous heist. The 196.52.0.0/14 block was another one of AFRINIC's senior management's thefts from the free pool and one that was subsequently sold or gifted to the proprietor of LogicWeb, Inc. of New York, USA, i.e. a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid. Sometime after Mr. Chad Abizeid received the 196.52.0.0/14 block that was stolen by Ernest Byaruhanga, which is worth well over $5 million, Mr. Abizeid tried to sell off the entire thing at once. 
Before recently reclaiming the stolen Internet Resources, the ex-CEO AFRINIC CEO, Eddy Kayihura, has known about the misappropriated 196.52.0.0/14 block for quite some time without taking any actions of reclaiming it, in potential with corruption from Mr. Abizeid, similar to the AfriHoldings lawsuit case.

AFRINIC's scandal of committing the biggest Internet Resources heist, valued at more than 50 million dollars, is still affecting businesses operations that are struggling to recover from AFRINIC's attempts of concealing the gravity of the thefts by reclaiming the stolen IP resources, with little to no consideration of the consequences on the African Internet Connectivity. These businesses are now taking the matter to the Mauritius Courts by filing lawsuits against AFRINIC's management.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://afnog.org/pipermail/afnog/2020-December/004056.html/ |title=[afnog] [Community-Discuss] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources |website=afnog.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120185437/https://afnog.org/pipermail/afnog/2020-December/004056.html |archive-date=2021-01-20}}</ref>