Cape Town businessman Stephen van Rooyen and his American girlfriend Laura Brown, accused of distributing unauthorised stem-cell treatment to terminally ill patients, were apparently raking in huge amounts of money. Cape Town businessman Stephen van Rooyen and his American girlfriend Laura Brown, accused of distributing unauthorised stem-cell treatment to terminally ill patients, were apparently raking in huge amounts of money. The couple allegedly charged patients $24 000 for a once-off injection of 1.5 million stem cells. Regardless of a patient's disease, everyone received the same treatment.
This was revealed by an ex-employee and close friend of the couple, who does not want to be named. The woman worked for three years at Advanced Cell Therapeutics (ACT), a Hout Bay-based company owned by the couple.
