Hills murder victim was career criminal
One of the victims of a double murder in Perth's hills, Stefan Viorel Borsa, was a career criminal and the former stepfather of a London-based mining and oil magnate.
Mr Borsa, 64, was jailed in the 1990s after trying to do a heroin deal with an undercover policeman at a South Perth hotel.
His now wealthy stepson Frank Timis was fined over the matter.
Mr Borsa's body was found at a property in Greenmount on Sunday morning, four hours before the body of a woman, 35-year-old Sidney Marcel De Beaux, was found a few metres away. His burnt-out Ford utility was found in a nearby street on Friday night.
Detectives have revealed little detail about the murders, which they believe happened some time on Friday, but Mr Borsa was no stranger to police, having been jailed on at least three occasions for crimes ranging from drug dealing to attempting to bribe a police officer.
In 2000, he received a seven-year sentence after being arrested on charges of dealing heroin near the Balga Aquatic Centre.
At the time of his arrest, Mr Borsa was trying to flee Australia on a fake Macedonian passport he had paid $25,000 for from a Sydney criminal.
During the arrest he offered a detective $100,000 to ensure the prosecution failed and when released on bail he was severely bashed, leaving him deaf in one ear. Police appealed for information about the burnt-out white 1991 Ford, registration 1AHW 956, or Mr Borsa's movements leading up to this death.
The victim's former wife, Ioana Timis, yesterday told _The West Australian _that she was shocked and saddened by his death. She said she had rarely spoken to him since their divorce in 2002 and his only child, daughter Carmelia, lived in Romania.
Ms De Beaux's family would not comment on the crime, although it is believed their daughter lived at the Scott Street property where the bodies were found.
State Emergency Service volunteers joined police yesterday to search bush in nearby Boya.
A man who was spotted at the Greenmount house on Saturday morning is wanted for questioning by police as they try to piece together the events leading up to the deaths.
The Caucasian man, aged in his mid-30s and between 175cm and 180cm tall, visited the property in a white-coloured sedan.
In 1990, Mr Borsa and Mr Timis, estimated to be worth more than $500 million, were caught in a police sting. Almost a decade later both men gave evidence to an immigration tribunal in support of Mr Timis' mother Ioana's application to stay in Australia
Mr Timis has made millions doing mining and oil deals in Africa, Kazakhstan, Asia and Australia where he remains a long-time business associate of Perth Glory owner and mining entrepreneur Tony Sage.
