Category: FIU Estonia

Estonian FIU and its improper dealing with crypto licensesN
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October 14, 2021

No more licenses! The end of Estonia’s weird crypto laundering strategy?

In June 2021, Matis Maeker resumed his post as the head of Estonia’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). The agency is the regulator for the thousands of crypto licenses that have been issued over the last couple of years. t agency believes Estonia should scrap its current crypto regulations and start again, he said in an interview with the local news outlet Eesti Ekspress. In total, the FIU issued more than 3,000 licenses (report here). In 2020, some 1,800 licenses have been revoked. Currently, around 400 crypto licenses are still active, which is more than all other EU member states issued.
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High-risk payment processors Jubiter and Coindeck operated by Global DLT ExchangeI
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September 7, 2021

Introducing crypto payment processor Global DLT Exchange with Jubiter and Coindeck

Coindeck is a new high-risk crypto payment processor brand operated by Slovakia-based Global DLT Exchange S.R.O., which also operates Jubiter. The latter was the trade name of Estonian Jubiter Technologies OÜ, which was licensed until February 2021. After many scam involvements, the company lost or renounced its license. Jubiter was transferred to Global DLT Exchange S.R.O. but continued to surface as a scam facilitator. Frequently together with BridgerPay. Most recently, we also found both in the GoldBachInvest scam.
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Tradixa Scam facilitated by Jubiter and PaysendT
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May 6, 2021

Tradixa broker scam facilitated by Jubiter, Paysend, and PandaTS

A few weeks ago, we warned against the broker scam Tradixa, operating with different domains. Currently, www.tradixa.net is the active domain of the scam allegedly operated by Tradixa Ltd, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and All Media EOOD, Bulgaria. The facilitating payment processors back then have been Praxis Cashier and ePay. While Praxis Cashier evidently terminated Tradixa, we have been able to establish that Estonian-Slovakian Jubiter and Spanish Paysend also facilitated the broker scam.
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Eesti Firma with Igor Torsin building crypto license payment providersE
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April 7, 2021

Estonian Compliance Issue – The Estonian lawyer Igor Torsin and Eesti Firma

We asked a few days ago, who is this Igor Torsin would be. A busy man for sure. We identified him as a director of nine FIU-licensed crypto payment processors in Estonia. Among these are also some that operate as scam facilitators - PayTechno or Steveyx d/b/a Venus Exchange. Evidently, he is the frontman for getting and maintaining the FIU license. We learned that Torsin is a lawyer working in Tallinn, Estonia, at Eesti Firma OÜ, a company builder specialized in crypto licenses, among other things.
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