Today, EFRI represents 876 mainly European victims who lost their life savings of more than EUR 45.9 million to boiler room scammers. Fraud victims transferred EUR 45.9 million to beneficial owners of fraudulent websites through various European banks/financial service providers. Our updated Follow the Money evaluation (downloadable here) and our studies of the
Gal and Marina BARAK’s Bulgarian money-laundering organization On 1 September 2020, the by now infamous Wolf of Sofia, the Israeli citizen Gal BARAK was found guilty of serious fraud and money laundering as operator and beneficial owner of the cybercrime organization of E&G Bulgaria, based in Sofia, Bulgaria. During the
On 1 September 2020, Gal BARAK, a citizen of Israel, 33, also called – the Wolf of Sofia – was sentenced to 4 years in prison at the Regional Court of Vienna, by the Senate of lay judges chaired by judge Christian Böhm for severe commercial fraud and money laundering
The money laundering scandals of recent years in the European Union have shown that the European Union’s banking sector, particularly, remains highly vulnerable to cross-border money laundering. Some late scandals like the #Wirecard scandal in Germany and the #Kobenhavn Andelskasse scandal or the Danske Bank scandal in Denmark made the
As you read this blog post, the #Wirecard tsunami sweeps over Germany and destroys the reputation of the capital market and its institutions. The responsible authorities (mainly #BAFIN) and involved companies (especially EY Germany) are blaming each other and are trying to overcome the issue. The frightening truth is that Germany
When we started to collect the deposit slips of the many victims that registered with us, some registered and unregistered (illegal) payment service providers continuously kept showing up. One often showing up illegal payment processor was B2G GmbH, Cologne (HRB 89485) a German company owned and managed by Rainer Treuer and Oleg Shvartsman.
At the end of June 2020, Wirecard, a DAX- listed Financial Service Company, imploded. Wirecard has enabled fraudsters to receive and distribute illegal funds for more than two decades. We summarized our findings of Wirecard´s money laundering activities in a money laundering complaint filed in January 2020. They played a
As discussed in our latest blog post, EFRI continues to file money-laundering complaints against scam facilitating payment processors based on the documentation provided by victims. We think that only if the European banks or the acquiring organizations stop to enable the money flow from the victims to the fraudsters the ongoing
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