Aviv Talmor, the Founder and CEO of the binary options scheme UTrade, has received a four-year prison sentence for defrauding investors of $22 million, FinanceMagnates reports. Additionally, he was fined about $78,900. The District Court in Tel Aviv sentenced Talmor after the conviction in September 2022. He was found guilty of fraud under aggravated circumstances, theft by an authorized person, money laundering, and managing an investment portfolio without a license.
A few days ago, Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States after billions in liquidity disappeared. Now FTX people are disappearing all over the world. In March 2022, FTX acquired the CySEC-regulated Investment Firm (CIF) K-DNA Financial Services Ltd to establish FTX Europe. Martha Lambrianou has served as CEO of the CySEC-regulated entity since 2017. She became the CEO of FTX Europe (see report). She deleted her LinkedIn profile and vanished.
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.