The cooperation of Payvision B.V., a Dutch supervised Payment Service provider, with the cybercriminals Gal Barak, Uwe Lenhoff, and his accomplices (Gery Shalon, Vlad Smirnov, and others) began in 2013. The cooperation ended at the end of January 2019 with the arrest of Gal Barak and Uwe Lenhoff. When reading
Mercuryo´s SLAPP against EFRI As of 24 April 2023 the mercuryo group initiated a SLAPP – Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation – against EFRI and its board members for defamation reasons. The Austrian lawyer BINDER GRÖSSWANG represented them in court. The request for a preliminary injunction related to a table
Letters sent out with a strictly confidential clause always tend to be interesting for many more people than the addressees. Last night, some Barak and Lenhoff victims represented by EFRI presumably received a refund offer from ING! As there are thousands of ING victims out there (a total of more
The criminal organization around Gal and Marina Barak, Uwe Lenhoff, Gery Shalon, Vlad Smirnov and their service providers (call centers, marketing affiliates, payment service providers) defrauded tens of thousands of innocent retail investors with their fraudulent websites (optionstarsglobal, xtraderfx, safemarkets, cryptopoint, goldenmarkets, zoomtrader, option888, xmarkets, tradovest, tradeinvest90) during the years
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As there is no central register for criminal charges brought against scammers in Europe and it gets really burdensome to remain updated, we will try to summarize our knowledge about the criminal trials and criminal proceedings ongoing here. TradeSolid, SolidCFD, IntegraOption, FXIntegra, TechOption, GetFinancial, ProCapitalMarkets, GainFinTech, MyCoinBanking, AccepTrade, ProfitsTrade, CoinsBanking
Around 300 victims from all over Europe, coordinated and supported by EFRI, have been requesting restitution payments for their losses since they learned about the reckless and willful involvement of Payvision in Barak and Lenhoff´s online scams. Legal claims in Austria and Germany are already pending. Additionally, a larger group
Graham Barrow has been highlighting the misuse of the UK Companies House for years now. Today, he announced on Linkedin that as of yesterday, 18 April 2023, 11,069,109 companies are registered with the UK Companies House Register. Out of these 11 million registered entities, only 5,227,447 are active. Founded
In July 2022, the British FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) confirmed that it would be introducing a higher standard of customer protection, requiring regulated firms (including payment institutions and e-money companies) to put their customers’ needs first. The new “Consumer Duty” rule consists of three elements: New consumer principle. The new
Simone Weinglass and BBC did a great job in identifying the issues of the law enforcement in Europe! The Milton Group is a transnational cybercriminal organization! In autumn 2022 it got public that in a concerted action, European authorities succeeded in striking a blow against the “Milton Group” after years
EFRI is the abbreviation for European Funds Recovery Initiative. The legal entity behind this Initiative is a not-for-profit organisation (EFRI-Association) registered in Vienna, Austria. Here you can read the statutes of the not-for-profit organization. Read More
