
EFRI’s Full Payvision Report: When Payment Infrastructure Becomes Fraud Infrastructure
EFRI’s Payvision Report: when payment infrastructure becomes fraud infrastructure

EFRI’s Payvision Report: when payment infrastructure becomes fraud infrastructure

The criminal case we have been following for years has now reached a major procedural milestone. On 27 January 2026, the Regional Court of Cologne (Landgericht Köln) delivered its judgment in the joined criminal proceedings arising from 112 KLs 6/21 and 112 KLs 2/24. The written reasons were later signed

Newly obtained chat records raise a central question for Europe: when does payment infrastructure cease to be neutral and become part of the machinery that keeps fraud alive? Persistence matters German prosecutors have proved exceptionally skilled at keeping victims away from the underlying court files: ongoing investigations, ongoing proceedings, documents

EFRI filed a criminal complaint against PAYVISION B.V. and its former management, Rudolf BOOKER, Gijs OP DE WEEGH, Cheng LIEM LI, with the Dutch DNB and the Dutch FIOD. The criminal files for Gal BARAK and Marina BARAK are extensive; based on these papers, we drafted the criminal complaint against