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August 2, 2020

Fight Cybercrime – Open EFRI Letter to FATF on the German problem

Currently, the Wirecard tsunami sweeps over Germany and destroys the reputation of the capital market and its institutions. The responsible authorities, auditors, and politicans are sort of playing the "Trip to Jerusalem" or "Musical chair" and deny any guilt in causing this drama. The frightening truth is that Germany has a systemic problem with cybercrime and money laundering. The consequence of this truth is that Germany must review the state of its authorities and its approach to cybercrime. And FATF should have a very close watch!

July 30, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – First Witness Day and Witness Bribery

Today the third day of the Vienna Cybercrime Trials against the Israeli Gal Barak took place in Vienna. The prosecutors charge Barak of being the principal of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria which operated a worldwide scam broker and money-laundering network with big fraud brands like XTraderFX, SafeMarkets, Golden Markets, CryptoPoint or OptionStars. The verdict is expected in early September 2020. Until then, several more days of hearings will take place. Today, many witnesses have been heard. In parallel, a friend of Baraks' tried to bribe a potential witness to testify in his favor.

July 24, 2020

Wirecard cybercrime case turns into a lethal EY scandal

The Wirecard cybercrime case is developing more and more of a lethal scandal for the auditor EY. Over the years, EY may have systematically failed to ask critical questions and to carry out proper auditing activities. For years, unqualified audit opinions were issued and fueled the Wirecard hype. Such an unqualified audit opinion was apparently also planned for 2019, despite the many publicly known facts and despite the KPMG report already available. This was disclosed to the Financial Times by a whistleblower.

EFRI

May 26, 2020

Announcement: Launching the victim-driven EFRI NGO and a cybercrime fighting Whistleblower Program

The European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI) was founded in November 2018 by FinTelegram Investors Protection Ltd ("FinTelegram") together with auditors and lawyers. The original EFRI mission was to provide support to scam victims in recovering their losses. The former EY partner Elfriede Sixt was appointed as EFRI Principal. As an auditor and Certified Public Accountant, she has focused on FinTechs and is also an expert in forensic analyses in the field of accounting. Since its inception the EFRI mission has evolved along with the acquired information on victims, scams, and their perpetrators. Today, we are proud to announce the launch of EFRI NGO, a victim-driven vehicle to recover funds and fight cybercrime.

May 18, 2020

German SPIEGEL published report on broker scams and EFRI

A few days ago, the leading German magazine SPIEGEL published a major report on the fraud perpetrated on retail investors by broker scams. Since the..

May 14, 2020

The EFRI Mission – Involving Regulators and Prosecutors to Recover Funds for Defrauded Investors

The European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI), co-founded by FinTelegram, is specialized in the recovery of funds of investors who have been defrauded by investment scams. Furthermore, EFRI sees itself as an advocate for investors and investor protection. Currently, EFRI has been granted a Power of Attorney by more than 800 victims which have been defrauded of more than EUR 34 million. The approach applied by EFRI differs in several aspects from the activities of lawyers and other organizations in the recovery business. Also because EFRI is organized as an initiative and association of victims.

May 1, 2020

Breaking News – Payvision founders Rudolf Booker, Cheng Liem Li, and Gijs op de Weegh resigned!

Payvision founder and CEO Rudolf Booker was the subject of numerous reports on FinTelegram. At least since 2015, he had navigated his Payvision into the..

March 11, 2020

BeAlgo & AlgoTechs broker scam – EFRI registers victims for European law enforcement investigations

In many jurisdictions, the authorities are currently investigating the fraudulent binary options & broker scams. The mills of justice are known to grind slowly but they grind. In addition, FinTelegram and the European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI), which we co-founded, ensure that the authorities continue their investigations and receive useful information. This was also the case with the huge BeAlgo and AlgoTechs broker scams. This scam has cheated thousands of small investors out of many millions.

March 4, 2020

German Handelsblatt published a new report on Wirecard and the EFRI money-laundering complaint

Felix Holtermann and Christian Schnell of the German Handelsblatt reported on the money-laundering report filed against Wirecard by the European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI). In a detailed article titled "The past catches up with Wirecard" the background of the global scam industry and the respective involvement of payment processors is explained.

March 3, 2020

EFRI filed money-laundering complaint against illegal payment processor B2G

Cybercrime in general and broker scams, in particular, would not be possible without the involvement of facilitating payment processors. Unfortunately, the FinTech hype of the..

November 22, 2019

KontoFX Broker Scam – EFRI Request for Compliance Audit of International Fintech UAB to Bank of Lithuania

The team of the European Funds Recovery Initiative (EFRI) co-founded by FinTelegram, together with its lawyers reports on a regular basis financial service providers involved..

October 30, 2019

Open Letter: We are against the lifting of the CVM for Bulgaria!

As of October 22, the European Commission (EC) issued its annual report on the progress made by Bulgaria and Romania in its justice reform and..