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January 25, 2021

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Marina Barak trial scheduled for March 15 with a new presiding judge

The Israeli fraudster Gal Barak is currently serving his four-year sentence handed down by the court in early September 2020 in the #VCT proceedings. He was one of the principals of the E&G Bulgaria cybercrime organization and found guilty of investment fraud and money-laundering. The German prosecutor's office also wants to charge him and has requested extradition. The trial against his wife, Marina Barak, is scheduled to start on March 15, 2021.

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.

January 8, 2021

Porn Baron Hamid “Ray” Akhavan arrested again for violation of pretrial release

January 7, 2020, was a productive day in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin was sentenced to 12 years in prison as an accomplice to Israeli cybercrime supervillain Gery Shalon, who was also charged. He had previously pleaded guilty. In parallel, Hamid "Ray" Akhavan and his German partner Ruben Wiegand, charged with money laundering and bank fraud, had a trial. Akhavan was rearrested for violating pretrial release conditions.

January 8, 2021

Gery Shalon Case – Russian home office hacker Andrei Tyurin sentenced to 12 years prison term

The Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 144 months in prison for his role in the largest financial hacker attack in US history, which was masterminded and coordinated by the Georgia-born Israeli cybercrime supervillain Gery "Gabi" Shalon. Tyurin has pleaded guilty to the charges and allegedly earned more than $19 Mio for his job. Tyurin controlled hacking activities through a computer infrastructure on five continents from his home office in Moscow.

December 11, 2020

Gery Shalon Case – Andrei Tyurin sentencing rescheduled to 7 January 2021

On December 3, 2020, the sentencing of the Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin should have taken place in New York. He is said to be a key accomplice of the Israeli mastermind Gery Shalon in the largest finance hack in U.S. history with more than 80 million stolen client data. Due to technical problems of the virtual court session, the sentencing session had to be stopped and has now been rescheduled for January 7, 2021.

December 11, 2020

Gery Shalon Case – Andrei Tyurin sentencing rescheduled to 7 January 2021

December 4, 2020

Shalon Case – Sentencing of Andrei Tyurin postponed due to technical problems

On Dec 3 the sentencing of the Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin should have taken place in New York. He is said to be a key accomplice of the Israeli mastermind Gery Shalon in the largest finance hack in U.S. history with more than 80 million stolen client data. The U.S. prosecutors ask the court for a prison-term between 15 to 20 years. Due to technical problems of the virtual court session, the sentencing had to be postponed.

December 4, 2020

Shalon Case – Sentencing of Andrei Tyurin postponed due to technical problems

December 2, 2020

Shalon Case – U.S. Prosecutors seek a 20-year prison term for Russian hacker!

Andrei Tyurin has been a co-conspirator of the Israeli Gery "Gabi" Shalon who carried out the biggest financial hack in U.S. history. In Sept 2019 Tyurin a/k/a “Andrei Tiurin,” pled guilty to computer intrusion, wire fraud, bank fraud, and illegal online gambling offenses in connection with this hacker attack. Allegedly, Tyurin was paid $19 million for his work, scheming with Shalon to destroy evidence that might lead to their apprehension. Prosecutors are seeking a prison term between 15 to 20 years.

November 6, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Indictment against alleged cybercrime CFO Marina Barak effective!

In early September 2020, Gal Barak, the Wolf of Sofia, was sentenced to four years in prison and reparations payments for investment fraud and money laundering. The Israeli principal of the cybercrime organization of E&G Bulgaria is responsible for tens of thousands of scam victims. Now the charges against his partner and wife Marina Barak became legally effective. She is accused of money laundering. The trial will start early next year.

October 21, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials and the disturbing Balkan Papers

The Israeli scammer and cybercrime principal Gal Barak was sentenced to four years in prison and restitution payments at the beginning of September 2020 at the start of the Vienna Cybercrime Trials ("#VCT"). Further charges against his co-conspirators will follow in various EU jurisdictions. Barak and his partner Uwe Lenhoff have also operated their illegal boiler rooms and payment processors in the Balkans. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network has recently published the Balkan Papers related to the #VCT.

September 30, 2020

Binary options – Millions of crime dividends transferred to perpetrators

The international investigations around the Vienna Cybercrime Trials with dozens of offshore companies bring new surprises almost daily. Until the arrest of one of its principals in early 2019, he led this cybercrime organization together with his wife Marina Barak, the Israeli Gery Shalon, and the Russian Vladislav Smirnov. The organization's purpose was the operation of binary options and broker scams. Millions of stolen funds were transferred to Online Prospect Ltd in Hong Kong, owned by the Israeli Simon Tetroashvili and the German Marc Ostheimer.