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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

Novox Group: The Hidden Binary Options Scam Enabler And The Guilty Plea!

Novox Capital, once a CySEC-regulated company, operated some "regulated" binary options brands. Additionally, Novox provided services to numerous scam schemes and offered them a regulatory umbrella: Option888 of Uwe Lenhoff, OptionStars of Gal Barak, and many others. The beneficial owners of the Novox Group were the cousins' Shay Hillel and Yehoram Hillel. They were also the main shareholders of the broker software company Tradologic. Novox and the Hillels are also at the center of the various trials.

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.

June 10, 2022

Wake-Up Call For The EU Legal System In The Precedent Case Of Cybercrime Perpetrator Gal Barak!

The 35-year-old Israeli Gal Barak has shown how helpless the E.U. is in the fight against cybercrime. Barak, along with U.S. defendant Gery Shalon and Russian Vladislav Smirnov, ran a global network of binary options and CFD broker scams, defrauding tens of thousands of victims of more than $200M. In Sept 2020, he was sentenced to a four-year prison term but released on bail after just one year. Upon his release, a private jet flew him to Israel, where he announced plans to launch a $20 million cybercrime fund to benefit from cybercrime energy!

June 10, 2022

Israeli Court Approves Extradition Of Suspects To Germany in GetFinancial Case!

Israeli news platforms reported today that the appropriate Israeli court approved the extradition of four more arrested suspects in the so-called GetFinancial Case (FinTelegram report..

June 1, 2022

The Next Indictment In the E&G Bulgaria Cybercrime Case With Payvision!

The E&G Bulgaria Cybercrime Scheme is dealt with by German prosecutor Nino Goldbeck in Bamberg. The German prosecutor informed that the boiler room agent Sasa Siler has also been charged for allegedly defrauding German-speaking victims with OptionStarsGlobal, XTraderFX, or Trade Capital. The mastermind behind E&G Bulgaria was the Israeli Gal Barak with his wife Marina Barak and their partners Gery Shalon and Vladislav Smirnov.

March 23, 2022

Former Gal Barak Lieutenant Chen Ganon also prosecuted in Germany

Chen Ganon was one of the former lieutenants of the convicted principal of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria, Gal Barak. He was the manager in charge of the broker scam SafeMarkets and has managed the boiler rooms in Belgrade and Sarajevo. Until recently, only the Austrian law enforcement prosecuted Ganon. Now the Bamberg prosecutor's office also prosecutes Ganon in Germany.

February 6, 2022

Wanted for court service – Mark Tepterev and his Russian-Estonian hosting provider SmartApe

Israeli Gal Barak, sentenced in September 2020 to four years in prison for investment fraud and money laundering, was a ringleader of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. He was released from jail on probation. He currently runs defamatory websites in which he slanders FinTelegram, EFRI, and his former partner. An EU court has ordered the hoster SmartApe to delete the articles, but the court order has not been served yet. We are therefore looking for the whereabouts of its director Mark Tepterev.

January 17, 2022

Exposed! FCA-regulated MoneyNetInt involved in big-style money-laundering!

The trial against the ringleaders of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria is currently underway in Munich, Germany. Gal Barak was already sentenced to four years in jail in Vienna in Sept 2020. Almost unnoticed, the preparation of charges against several ringleaders of the cybercrime organization around the late Uwe Lenhoff and the Veltyco Group is currently underway in Saarbrücken. Criminal records show that MoneyNetInt was massively involved in Lenhoff's money laundering.

January 2, 2022

Cybercrime billionaire Gery Shalon ordered to pay €413 million to U.S. Government!

Gery Shalon has certainly redefined financial cybercrime and took it to the next level. He started his dark career the with illegal online gambling business. In 2012, he expanded into online investment fraud, securities manipulation and cryptocurrencies. He was indicted in 2015, pled guilty in 2017, and has to pay more than $413 million to the U.S. Government for his cybercrime offenses. He is believed to have assets of about $2 billion.