The Italian Consob ordered the black-out of five illegal financial websites increasing the total number of black-out orders to 713. Against three of the scams, the Consob ordered to be blacked out FinTelegram has already issued warnings – AGM Markets, GalanTrade, and FinexStocks. Both of them have been around for years already and received warnings from different financial market regulators! It would be desirable if other regulators were also empowered by their parliament to block access to illegal websites.
BaFin warns that the scam broker AC-MarketsFX, Cyprus, does not have a license to conduct banking business or provide financial services in Germany. The scam operates with different domains and trading styles as a clone of the CySEC-regulated CIFs AG Markets (Europe) Limited and AAA Trade Ltd which are currently permitted to operate in the EU on the basis of the European license passporting regulations. The CySEC-regulated AG Markets (Europe) warns against this scam on its website.
ASIC has filed a lawsuit against taken fintech iSignthis (ISX) and its Managing Director, John Karantzis, to court. The regulator filed a lawsuit last week alleging iSignthis and Karantzis had breached its disclosure obligations and misled shareholders regarding some high-paying contracts signed during the first half of 2018. Behind the ASIC proceedings are 2018 contracts and revenues related to some 336.7 million performance shares for the ISX management. ISX used to be part of the Israeli Network of Binary Options Supervillains of Yossi Herzog.
A few days ago FinTelegram reported that Australian media uncovered the scam activities of the Israeli Yossi Herzog in Australia. Herzog, along with his partner Kobi Cohen and other co-conspirators, has been charged with binary options fraud in the U.S. His former employee Lee Elbaz, as CEO of Yukom scam, has already been sentenced to 22 years in prison and a $28 million restitution payment. Yossi Herzog's scam network is truly global and developed some real supervillains.
Yossi Herzog, charged in the Yukom Case in the U.S. with binary options fraud to the tune of $200 million is one of the alleged supervillains of the binary options era. Apparently, he defrauded tens of thousands of victims out of hundreds of millions with his broker schemes in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. As a result of Australian investigations, the Australian regulator ASIC is now heavily criticized for not having taken action against Herzog and his scams earlier.