FinTelegram has warned several times about the Latvian Racket, a cybercrime organization attacking consumers with broker scams and boiler rooms. One of these scams is FinexTrader, against which several financial regulators have issued warnings over the last two years. Recently, the Spanish CNMV. In our review on 1 August 2023, the scam’s website was not accessible. It seems the scammers vanished with their victims’ money.
Key Data
| Trading name | FinexTrader |
| Related to | Latvian Racket |
| Related scams | XFINANCES, eXFINANCES, ZurichInvests, INT International Traders, Intraders |
| Domain | https://finextrader.com |
| Legal entity | Finex Group Ltd |
| Jurisdiction | United Kingdom |
| Related individual | Aleksejs Kohanovs |
| Payment processors | ChargeMoney (https://charge.money) HighIsk (https://highisk.com) |
| Authorization | No |
| Compliance rating | Black |
| Warnings | FMA, AMF, CNMV, Central Bank of Ireland |
Short FinexTrader Narrative
FinexTrader is allegedly operated by Finex Group Ltd, which has already operated the now disappeared scams XFINANCES, eXFINANCES, and ZurichInvests. On August 1, 2023, the UK Companies House announced the Compulsory Strike off. of Finex Group Ltd. Thex Companies House data show that the company has not filed its accounts due since May 2022. This is a sign that the scam will soon disappear.
The Latvian Aleksejs Kohanovs is registered as the controlling person in the UK Companies Register. As payment processors, we have discovered ChargeMoney and HighIsk.
Finex Group Ltd is part of the Latvian Racket, a cybercrime organization controlled by Latvian nationals. Several scams (which have since disappeared) have been run through this company. Finex Group has closely cooperated with the crypto payment processor Estonian Futurus X OÜ d/b/a MisterBit, which has also disappeared.
Read more about the vanished MisterBit here.
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If you have any information about FinexTrader, Finex Group, Latvian Racket, and the people involved, please let us know via our whistleblower system, Whistle42.
