Financial Fraud evidently is no Crime in the Netherlands!

People keep asking us why we are so convinced that Payvision BV, a subsidiary of ING Bank NV, and a supervised Dutch payment institution is liable for millions of losses suffered by thousands of innocent fraud victims between 2013 and 2019. In addition, we are also asked why we believe

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Aufruf an Opfer von BARAK und LENHOFF: Gemeinsam für Gerechtigkeit!

Wichtige Mitteilung an alle Betroffenen der Betrugssysteme BARAK (Wolf of Sofia) und LENHOFF: Wir – die European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI), ein in Wien eingetragener gemeinnütziger Verein zur Bekämpfung von Cyberkriminalität gegen Kleinanleger und Verbraucher –  setzen uns seit mehreren Jahren aktiv für die Interessen von Opfern dieser Betrugssysteme ein.

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Do the Rich and Powerful Get Away with Crime in the Netherlands?

In recent years, several high-profile cases in the Netherlands have raised questions about whether justice is equally applied to all. From cryptocurrency developers to board members of banks and payment companies, these cases illustrate a troubling trend: wealth and influence may afford certain protections, leading many to wonder if the

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Payment service provider for 24option

Payvision/ING also processed card payments for #24option!

Payvision/BOOKER is now known to have been the primary payment service provider for the fraudulent websites of the Wolf of Sofia and Uwe Lenhoff’ from 2016 to 2019. Less well-known, but equally significant, is the fact that Payvision (a subsidiary of one of Europe’s largest banks, the Dutch ING) has

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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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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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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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Summary about our findings for the Payvision case!

Over the past four years, we have communicated with hundreds of victims of online trading scams. We’ve analyzed their banking documents and prepared criminal complaints on their behalf. Additionally, we’ve reviewed hundreds of pages of court files. At this point, we believe we have a comprehensive understanding of how online

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HI KUMPEL

Booker doing a Post-Processing-Due-Diligence!

A whistleblower informed us of rumors that the Dutch FIOD is still investigating the PAYVISION/BOOKER money laundering case. It’s conceivable that probing into Payvision’s long-standing involvement with scammers is a complex task. The personal connection between Booker, Payvision’s founder and long-term CEO, and Uwe Lenhoff, the beneficial owner of online

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