As of January 21, 2021, UNZER (formerly Heidelpay) announced its acquisition of two Danish payment companies: Clearhaus A/S, an acquiring company (payment institution supervised by the Danish FSA and QuickPay in Aarhus in Denmark – subject to the approval of the relevant supervisory authorities. EFRI represents 77 victims who have deposited their life
It became a modern trend in the financial sector that each organization likes to provide sophisticated wordings about the importance of sustainable finance and the application of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria in their day-to-day business and asset allocation. Above all big banks and financial institutions heavily publish about
EFRI, an association based in Vienna, Austria, set up in spring 2020, by now represents more than 1,052 European consumers who were defrauded by cybercriminals. As of writing the victims lost over EUR 59.2 million in the form of investment scams also referred to as boiler room scams. HSBC, one
In preparing the civil legal claims against PAYVISION B.V., we dig deeply into the criminal files for Option888 and the Wolf of Sofia. We learn a lot about how these fraudulent schemes work. In addition, we also know a lot about the enablers of these enormous fraudulent activities. Unscrupulous regulated
For more than two years, we have been delivering information about bank accounts of Deutsche Handelsbank used for scamming people to the German authorities. When we were working on the #Wirecard money laundering complaint (back in January 2020), it was evident that some of the scammers used both Wirecard and Deutsche
EFRI filed a criminal complaint against PAYVISION B.V. and its former management, Rudolf BOOKER, Gijs OP DE WEEGH, Cheng LIEM LI. The criminal files for Gal BARAK and Marina BARAK are extensive, based on these papers we drafted the criminal complaint against PAYVISION B.V. (a ING subsidiary) and its former
The Directive for the Rights of Victims (DIRECTIVE 2012/29/EU) in principle prescribes everything needed to protect consumers and care for fraud victims. Based on experiences made by the fraud victims we represent we realized that there is a severe backlog in adopting this Victims´Rights Directive in many European Union member
To date, EFRI represents more than 910 European consumers who have been ripped off by investment scams, stealing EUR 49,8 Mio of their lifetime savings. The harm done to hundreds of thousands of European consumers – mainly older and vulnerable people – during the past years by investment and boiler
We have been doing a deep-dive investigation in PAYVISION B.V. Amsterdam’s business activities. PAYVISION B.V. is a 100 per cent subsidiary of one of the world’s most reputable banks ING Groep N.V. We know that PAYVISION served scammers like Gal BARAK and Uwe LENHOFF wilfully, as described in our article
EFRI Founder, Elfriede Sixt, did an interview with Fintelegram. We copied it n here: The European Fund Recovery Initiative (EFRI) was founded in 2018 by the CPA Elfriede Sixt joint effort with FinTelegram and lawyers. EFRI represents more than 1,000 scam victims by now with around 60 million euros damages. Besides assisting victims,
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
