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April 25, 2023

Attention: Dutch Lawyer Starts Legal Action Against Payvision!

It was early 2019 when a year-long investigation by law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest of two cybercrime masterminds, Uwe Lenhoff and Gal Barak, took place. Both were clients of Rudolf Booker's high-risk payment processor Payvision with their scams. Lenhoff was even a sales partner of Payvision. Now the Dutch lawyer Marius Hupkes is also taking action against Payvision in Amsterdam on behalf of scam victims and invites them to contact him.

March 30, 2023

No! Payvision And Rudolf Booker Are Not Defendants In The German Indictments!

A whistleblower asked us if Payvision or its founder Rudolf Booker was also named a defendant in the German indictment against Gal Barak. The question is justified because tens of millions of the victims of Barak's broker scams have deposited via Payvision. The criminal files show that as Payvision's CEO at the time, Booker knew that Barak was running scams and defrauding customers. But to our knowledge, he is not listed as a defendant in the German indictment.

March 29, 2023

Gal Barak Case: German Trial May Be Scheduled For Late 2023; Potential Witnesses Threatened!

We reported last week on the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of Gal Barak. The CJEU stated that Barak and his accomplices could be charged in any EU member state where they defrauded citizens with broker scams. Thus, according to the information available, the German prosecutor's office around Nino Goldbeck will move forward quickly with the indictment of Gal Barak and his wife, Marina Barak. A trial in Germany could begin in the fall.

March 24, 2023

Barak Case: The CJEU Opinion And the Next Steps To Bring Justice And Compensate Victims!

We reported yesterday on the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the Gal Barak case. In 2020, he was convicted and sentenced for investment fraud and money laundering in Austria; additional charges are possible in other jurisdictions. In Germany, Gal Barak and his wife, Marina Barak, are to be charged as ringleaders of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. Barak had entered a ne bis in idem plea. Apparently unsuccessfully. Thus, German prosecutors can proceed with their charges.

March 23, 2023

Breaking: European Court Of Justice Approves German Trial Against Gal Barak

Israeli cybercrime mastermind Gal Barak was sentenced in Vienna in September 2020 to four years imprisonment for investment fraud and money laundering. In 2021, Gal Barak was to be extradited from the Austrian prison to Germany because he was also to be charged there. His lawyer has appealed against this, invoking the principle of ne bis in idem. Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Gal Barak can be charged in Germany.

March 9, 2023

Vanished: Disgraced ING Subsidiary Payvision Seems To Be Gone Without Compensating Victims!

We had already been expecting this for a few weeks. Since the Dutch banking giant ING announced in October 2021 that it would phase out Payvision, it was clear that at some point, quietly and secretly, the high-risk payment processor founded by Rudolf Booker would disappear. For ING, Payvision, acquired in 2018 under then-CEO Ralph Hamers for a reported €400 million, was a huge financial and reputational flop. Court documents to CEO Andre Valkenburg can no longer be served!

February 24, 2023

Disgraced ING Subsidiary Payvision, Its Regulatory Troubles, And Victims Complaints!

It is now well known in the international fintech scene that Payvision, founded by Rudolf Booker in 2002 in Amsterdam, was a dubious high-risk payment processor that facilitated not only porn and gambling merchants but also broker scams. Many scam victims have deposited and lost their money through Payvision. The victim protection organization EFRI claims that Payvision knowingly and intentionally facilitated scams to boost its volume and profits.

January 27, 2023

Bloomberg: Cybercrime Mastermind Gery Shalon Free And Back in Israel Since 2021!

Gery Shalon, the cybercrime mastermind behind the online casino schemes, pump-and-dump schemes, and one of the partners of Gal Barak, returned to Israel after being allowed to leave US custody two years ago, his father Shota Shalelashvili allegedly said in an interview broadcast in the Republic of Georgia. Shalon was extradited from Israel in 2015 and faced 23 counts and potentially decades in prison. He also was accused of running global money-laundering operations.

January 22, 2023

Exposed: The Stolen Millions Of The Israeli Scam Brokers And The Missing Restitution Payments!

In Austria, another trial in the environment of Israeli Gal Barak's cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria will begin in a few weeks. Barak was sentenced in 2020 for investment fraud and money laundering to several years of imprisonment and about €4 million in restitution payments that he has not paid yet. Criminal records show that Gal Barak, his wife, Marina Barak, and his partners, Gery Shalon and Vladislav Smirnov, earned around €38 million between 2017 and 2019 alone.

January 19, 2023

Former Israeli Executive In Gal Barak’s Cybercrime Organization Arrested In Cyprus!

The news is actually not really new anymore. The Israeli Chen Ganon was arrested in Cyprus a few weeks ago at the request of the German public prosecutor's office. Ganon was one of the managers in Gal Barak's cybercrime organization. He was responsible for the broker scam SafeMarkets and has worked in the boiler rooms in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. We spoke with Ganon several times in 2018, and he confirmed the allegations against Gal Barak and E&G Bulgaria.

December 26, 2022

Interesting! The Vanished Binary Options Scam Facilitator Novox Capital And Its Legacy!

More trials against binary options scam operators or their facilitators coming up in the first half of 2023. The former beneficial owners of the (then) CySEC-regulated Novox Capital Ltd are also in the spotlight: the Israelis Shay Hillel, Yehoram Hillel, and their partner and frontman Israel Bash. They are currently not charged however the prosecution alleges that their Novox Capital had been massively involved in running and facilitating vast binary options scams. Gal Barak and his cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria were a close partner and client of Novox Capital.

December 11, 2022

Exposed: FCA-Regulated Connectum And Russian High-Risk Payment Processor Hawex!

FCA-regulated payment institution Connectum was a notorious scam facilitator and money launderer for the fraudulent Israeli broker scene. It processed payments for the cybercrime organization of the convicted Israeli Gal Barak. At least until a few months ago, Connectum has been working closely with the Russian-controlled high-risk payment processor Hawex, in which the notorious Indo-British Ruchi Rathor is also involved. Whistleblowers have provided us with data exposing Hawex merchants billed through Connectum.