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May 1, 2021

Breaking News – Criminal complaints against Payvision and its founders

Payvision and its founder and former CEO Rudolf Booker are already subjects of the criminal proceedings in Germany and Austria. Uwe Lenhoff, the alleged mastermind of a cybercrime organization, was arrested in January 2019. He was a personal friend of Booker and used Payvision for his dirty business. Rudolf Booker was introduced to Lenhoff by Amsterdam real estate investor Dirk-Jan Bakker, a partner of Lenhoff, who was found dead in his prison cell in July 2020. Criminal charges have now been filed against Payvision and its founders for money laundering and investment fraud.

November 14, 2020

The Payvision Story continued – Fourthline and Cetler are the new playgrounds

The largest Dutch financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad has continued the story with Payvision and ING with an impressive piece of investigative work. In addition to the data he received from FinTelegram and EFRI, Betlem did extensive research of his own and concludes in his two reports that Payvision was and is a horror project for ING. The founder team with Rudolf Willem Booker, Gijs op de Weegh, and Cheng Liem Li had to leave the company in April 2020.

May 8, 2020

Dutch Payment Veteran Andre Valkenburg presented as new Payvision CEO

After the surprise departure of the founders of Payvision a few days ago, mother ING has installed a new CEO in Andre Valkenburg. He will..

May 2, 2020

Dutch Magazin ‘Follow The Money’ uncovers background information on latest Payvision movements

The investigative Dutch magazine Follow the Money ("FTM") yesterday published a detailed article on the resignation of the three founders and directors of Payvision. Rudolf Booker (45), Cheng Lim Li (42), and Gijs Op de Weegh (44) founded Payvision in 2002 and announced their voluntary or involuntary resignation on May 1, 2020. In the featured picture of the FTM article, the Payvision founders portrayed as FinTech cowboys who know how the game is played. They got rich by selling their Payvision shares to ING. With a valuation that was based on sales of scam clients.

The Unraveling of Rabidi and the Rise of the SoftSwiss Network: Our Updated Forensic Report

A few months ago, FinTelegram released a first forensic report on the bankruptcy of Rabidi N.V., a Curacao-registered online casino operator with hundreds of millions in revenues — and no traceable assets by the time of its collapse in May 2024. That report already raised serious questions about the opaque structures behind Rabidi’s operations and its successor, Liernin Enterprises Ltd.

DeFi Decoded: Smart Contracts – The Code Behind the DeFi Revolution

Smart contracts are the invisible architects of decentralized finance. These self-executing lines of code run everything from token swaps to lending platforms without middlemen. But while they offer autonomy, they also introduce new risks—bugs, exploits, and irreversible mistakes. In this fourth installment of our FinTelegram DeFi Series, we explain what smart contracts are.

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Despite New Crypto Friendlyness: No Settlement Between U.S. CFTC And KuCoin?

A planned settlement between the U.S.CFTC and crypto exchange KuCoin is now in limbo due to a reported policy shift within the CFTC. This change is attributed to the Trump administration’s new approach, which deprioritizes enforcement actions against crypto companies. As a result, a CFTC attorney said that it is "unlikely that such authorization will be granted in the near term" regarding the settlement approval.

SEC’s New Era: Paul Atkins Sworn In—Will Crypto Finally Get the Regulatory Clarity It Deserves?

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has entered a new chapter with the swearing-in of Paul S. Atkins as its 34th Chairman, a move widely anticipated to mark a dramatic pivot in how the agency approaches crypto and DeFi regulation. For years, the financial industry—especially the burgeoning digital asset sector—has bristled under the SEC’s “Regulation by Enforcement” strategy.

Crypto Mogul Changpeng Zhao – Fallen, Rich, and Rising Again?

As spring 2025 blooms and Easter’s themes of rebirth fill the air, Changpeng Zhao emerges as one of the most controversial figures of startup mythology: a man who fell spectacularly, paid a price—then rose again, wealthier and louder than ever. Once the almighty architect of Binance, CZ now resides in Dubai with a net worth that Forbes estimates at $63 billion.