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October 12, 2021

Prosecutors filed the indictment against Israeli cybercrime lieutenant Jacki Fitelzon

We already reported a few weeks ago about the upcoming indictment of Israeli Tal-Jacki Zecharia Fitelzon. The 44-year-old guy was a lieutenant of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria of Gal Barak, the "Wolf of Sofia." The latter was sentenced to four years in prison in Vienna in September 2020. The Central Office Cybercrime Bavaria (ZKB) has filed charges against Fitelzon for defrauding 335 German victims of approximately €8.7 million. Fitelzon must now face a trial in Munich. Further charges surrounding E&G Bulgaria will follow.

May 13, 2021

Vienna Cybercrime Trial – The Know-Nothing Accountant; Part One!

The Bulgarian Marina Barak is a brilliant and charming woman. She holds a degree in economics and worked in the financial field in London. Besides her native Bulgarian, she speaks perfect English and undoubtedly has a talent for numbers and organization. From at least 2016 to 2019, she was the chief financial officer and chief accountant of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria EOOD in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her husband, the Israeli Gal Barak, was one of the organization's principal and operated illegal and fraudulent broker brands along with boiler rooms in Bulgaria, Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine, or Bosnia and Herzegovina with his Israeli leadership team.

May 12, 2021

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Gal Barak charged with giving false testimony and the Israeli fraud elite!

Gal Barak was sentenced in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials as one of the masterminds behind the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria to four years in prison and millions in restitution payments for investment fraud and money laundering. His Bulgarian wife Marina Barak faces the same charges and is currently on trial. Gal Barak gave false testimony at the trial of his wife and was consequently charged by the prosecution for that. As private prosecutors, the EFRI lawyer and its principal Elfriede Sixt accompany the trials representing the victims' voice!

March 18, 2021

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Contempt of Court, no remorse, and no more answers!

The second day in the trial against Marina Barak (previously Marina Andreeva), the former CFO of the Israeli-Bulgarian cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria was being held today. The judges continued their questioning. Moreover, her husband, Gal Barak, was also scheduled to testify. He was already sentenced in September 2020 as principal and CEO of E&G Bulgaria to four years in prison and is currently in prison in Austria. In the run-up, Gal Barak had unpacked and accused his former partners and employees like Ilan Tzorya or Boyan Popov.

March 15, 2021

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Former Cybercrime CFO Marina Barak opts for “I was in love” strategy

In his opening statement, the prosecutor claims that Marina Barak, along with her husband Gal Barak, was the key person in the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. For example, she assigned the shifts in the boiler rooms, kept the personnel files, and organized the money laundering. She was also responsible for appointing partly homeless people as directors at the Legal Entities to operate the scam brands. According to the prosecution's findings, Marina Barak continued the scam operations after her husband's arrest.

January 19, 2021

Trinity Files – The U.S Case of Gery Shalon, Vienna Cybercrime Trials, and Russian connections

The Georgian-born Israeli Gery "Gabi" Shalon is arguably the mastermind of the world's largest cybercrime organization, stretching over the U.S., Europe, Russia, Georgia, Israel into Asia. The Israeli accountant Ziv Orenstein was one of Shalon's deputies in the U.S. There, they operated illegal gaming schemes and performed the largest cybercrime attack ever on the U.S. financial industry. While waiting for his U.S. trial Shalon continues to operate his cybercrime ventures.

September 2, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – The implications of the Gal Barak sentencing

The judge in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials sentenced Gal Barak, the Israeli principal of the cybercrime organization around E&G Bulgaria to four years imprisonment. Without probation. In addition, €2.5 million were seized and confiscated and are available for restitution payments to Austrian victims. This Austrian indictment was only the first step in the fight of the EU authorities against Barak and his organization. The indictment against his wife Marina Barak has already been served. Further indictments and convictions will follow.

August 2, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – The Political Implications of this landmark Court Case for the EU

The Vienna Cybercrime Trials against Gal Barak, the alleged Israeli principal of the cybercrime organization around E&G Bulgaria have a political dimension in several respects. Let us start with the light political dimension on Facebook. There we could not promote the last post about the Vienna Cybercrime Trials, because the article mentioned Barak's many political contacts. Therefore, Facebook classified the article as political election advertising and rejected the application. That's the more funny side of this case.

August 2, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – The Political Implications of this landmark Court Case for the EU

August 2, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – The Political Implications of an important Court Case for the EU

July 28, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Defendant Barak confirms involvement of his wife and Payvision role

The second day of the Vienna Cybercrime Trials against Gal Barak, the alleged Israeli principal of an international cybercrime organization and operator of numerous broker scams, brought remarkable findings. The prosecutors confronted Barak with payment transactions of the various companies of Barak's cybercrime organization. At the center of these transactions was the notorious GPay Ltd. And, oh yes! Barak was not the boss, he said. He just liked the offices in Sofia.

June 12, 2020

European Binary Options Legacy – First Indictment against Gal Barak et al brought!

Gal Barak and his partner, German citizen Uwe Lenhoff, were arrested in early 2019 in an international law enforcement action. They are accused by various EU authorities of being part of an international cybercrime organization that has defrauded tens of thousands of retail investors of hundreds of millions via broker scams. The Austrian public prosecutor has now brought the first charge.