Payvision settlement agreement

Booker and Cheng Liem Li fined for massive KYC-failures!

On April 5, 2024, the Dutch Prosecutor announced that the criminal charges against Payvision´s board members were settled out of court. Booker and his collegue Cheng Liem Li were found to have (2016 – April 2020) structurally and for many years violated the European Know your Customer rules and accepted

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Brokerscams

Extent of #BrokerScams in Europe!

The damage currently caused to small European investors by fraud on online trading websites (from now on, also referred to as #BrokerScams or #InvestmentScams) promising high returns for investments (right now mainly cryptos) in Europe is estimated at (at least) 1 billion euros per month (!). This is only a

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AMLA goes to frankfurt

AMLA in Frankfurt or to “to set a fox to guard the henhouse”

On 22 February 2024, the EU Council and the EU Parliament voted 28 to 26 to establish the new Anti-Money Laundering Authority in Frankfurt, Germany. This authority, anticipated in the highly regarded EU Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Package, is expected to play a crucial role in combating money laundering within the

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authorized push payment

Get prepared for a massive increase in APP scams in Europe!

Approvement of the new EU Instant Payments Regulation! On 7th February 2024, the European Parliament formally approved the new Instant Payments Regulation.  Under the new regulations for Instant Payments (also known as Real-Time Payments), all European payment providers are required to give their customers the option to conduct Euro-denominated credit

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GPay contract

Was Payvision an accomplice to the scammers?

For over four years, we have meticulously examined criminal files to decipher the operations of Barak and Lenhoff´s criminal organization and the involvement of Payment Service Providers (PSPs) in these schemes. In recent months, as we collected information for the ongoing civil proceedings against Payvision and Deutsche Bank, we have

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JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS

How to Serve Court Documents in the Crypto Asset Era.

Crypto assets, hailed as a remarkable innovation, have become a perfect vehicle for fraud. Crypto assets opened the door to a shockingly high level of fraud. The lack of regulatory oversight about crypto assets contributes to the issue. Crypto assets have a different status in different jurisdictions. Even with recovery

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Investigation Houston

Did ING and PAYVISION partner in crime?

Ruthlessness reaches a new high! Despite being aware of ongoing criminal proceedings for culpable money laundering,  despite pledging to the Dutch prosecutor to try hard to remedy compliance shortcomings (under the oversight of DNB), and despite being very well aware of the dirty kind of business PAYVISION was in, ING

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Letter to EBA

DNB´s strange non-disclosure approach for the Payvision case

Payvision BV,  a 100% entity of ING Bank NV (one of the biggest bank in Europe) was identified by the Austrian law enforcement agency as being the main payment processor for a vast criminal organization headed by Gal Barak, Gery Shalon, Uwe Lenhoff and others. Payvision willfully, and ruthlessley violated

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