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July 30, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – First Witness Day and Witness Bribery

Today the third day of the Vienna Cybercrime Trials against the Israeli Gal Barak took place in Vienna. The prosecutors charge Barak of being the principal of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria which operated a worldwide scam broker and money-laundering network with big fraud brands like XTraderFX, SafeMarkets, Golden Markets, CryptoPoint or OptionStars. The verdict is expected in early September 2020. Until then, several more days of hearings will take place. Today, many witnesses have been heard. In parallel, a friend of Baraks' tried to bribe a potential witness to testify in his favor.

July 28, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Defendant Barak confirms involvement of his wife and Payvision role

The second day of the Vienna Cybercrime Trials against Gal Barak, the alleged Israeli principal of an international cybercrime organization and operator of numerous broker scams, brought remarkable findings. The prosecutors confronted Barak with payment transactions of the various companies of Barak's cybercrime organization. At the center of these transactions was the notorious GPay Ltd. And, oh yes! Barak was not the boss, he said. He just liked the offices in Sofia.

July 8, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trial – Barak’s attorney blames ‘stupid’ and ‘greedy’ victims for their losses!

The first day of trial in a landmark cybercrime trial against suspected Israeli scam broker operator Gal Barak. The trial began punctually at 9.30 am in Vienna. The trial was also observed by the Austrian lawyer of Barak's Russian partner, Vladislav Smirnov. In addition, EFRI Principal Elfriede Sixt was in the courtroom as representative of the aggrieved small investors. The process is under international observation and is seen as a reference model for further cybercrime processes in the EU.

July 2, 2020

E&G Bulgaria Cybercrime Case – UK authorities closed down GPay in the public interest

On July 8, 2020, probably the biggest European financial cybercrime trials ever starts in Vienna. Prosecutors charge Gal Barak, one of the major Israeli binary options and broker scammers, of investment fraud and money-laundering. With his scam brands XTraderFX, SafeMarkets, Golden Markets, CryptoPoint, or OptionStars he has defrauded tens of thousands of victims in Europe. Right before the trial UK authorities closed down the cybercrime organization's money-laundering hub.

June 27, 2020

Cybercrime Court Case – German B2G and the stolen client funds in the E&G Scheme!

The Austrian prosecutors are the first the brought charges against the alleged cybercrime principal Israeli Gal Barak. The process starts on 8 July 2020 in Vienna. The focus will be on the beneficial owner and principal of the cybercrime organization surrounding E&G Bulgaria EOOD. Barak has been charged with investment fraud and money laundering.

June 12, 2020

European Binary Options Legacy – First Indictment against Gal Barak et al brought!

Gal Barak and his partner, German citizen Uwe Lenhoff, were arrested in early 2019 in an international law enforcement action. They are accused by various EU authorities of being part of an international cybercrime organization that has defrauded tens of thousands of retail investors of hundreds of millions via broker scams. The Austrian public prosecutor has now brought the first charge.

February 28, 2020

Exposed – ING subsidiary Payvision processed €130 million illicit proceeds for now-detained broker scammers Lenhoff & Barak and did so while reporting suspicious activities!

The extent of the damage caused by scam facilitating FinTechs is very clearly shown by the ING subsidiary Payvision. The Dutch Fintech processes some €130 million just for the scams of the two now-imprisoned Uwe Lenhoff (Germany) and Gal Barak (Israel). Thanks to the investigations many sad hypothesis around FinTechs and their role as cybercrime facilitators have been proved by facts and evidence.

November 29, 2019

Binary Options Scams – The secret relationships between Novox Capital, Payvision and Lenhoff

In January 2019 the German Uwe Lenhoff was arrested. After months of investigations by the authorities in Austria, Germany, and other EU countries, the authorities..

September 25, 2019

The War of Scammers – Binary Options perpetrators’ self-destructing fight after the collapse of the Israeli fraud industry

The Israeli journalist Simona Weinglass has made the worldwide public aware of the gigantic Israeli fraud industry of binary options with her article series “The..

September 24, 2019

EU Groundhog Day – Bulgarian court again adjourned decision on Gal Barak extradition while U.S. courts aggressively go for his former partners!

Today another trial took place in Sofia, Bulgarian. Again, the Austrian authorities' request for the extradition of the Israeli citizen Gal Barak, who lives in Sofia, was to be decided. Again, the decision was adjourned. Scheduled for 21 October 2019 now.

September 11, 2019

Exposed – Alleged Broker Scammer Gal Barak invests stolen money in real-estate projects in Bulgaria

The Israeli Gal Barak and his professional and private partner of many years, the Bulgarian Marina Andreeva, have married. For the wedding, the freshly baked..

September 7, 2019

The Payvision Story – The role of Amsterdam-based payment services provider in binary options and broker scams

Amsterdam-based Payvision and its founder and CEO Rudolf Booker played an important role as payment service providers (PSP) in the gigantic investment scam of Uwe..