About Digital Detective

Seasoned investigators, forensic specialists and expert witnesses

Digital Detective supports attorneys, advocates, businesses, investigators and private clients with independent digital-forensic and investigative services across South Africa.

Our approach

Every instruction begins with the legal, investigative or operational question that the evidence must help answer. The work is then scoped around preservation, proportionality, available sources, technical limitations and the form in which findings may need to be presented.

Lotie

Lotie is the founder and director of Digital Detective and works as a digital forensic and cybercrime specialist. His background combines criminal investigation, digital-forensic laboratory leadership, legal training and expert reporting.

Mias

Mias is a senior investigator and digital forensic examiner with extensive criminal-investigation experience. He supports evidence handling, acquisition, examination, investigative development and reporting.

Independence

Digital Detective’s role is to identify, preserve, examine and explain digital evidence objectively. Findings are reported with their limitations and are not shaped to favour a party’s preferred outcome.

Expert evidence

Courtroom experience across multiple court levels

Lotie and Mias have been accepted as expert witnesses in South African court proceedings, including High Court, Regional Court and Magistrates’ Court contexts. Their investigative backgrounds include serious crime, financial crime, racketeering, money laundering and digital evidence.

Expert witness services