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January 10, 2021

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – The Written Verdict in the Gal Barak Case

The Vienna Crime Trials (#VCT) are not an official term but is used by FinTelegram to refer to the various court proceedings surrounding the E&G Bulgaria cybercrime organization. In September 2020, the Israeli citizen Gal Barak was convicted as the organization's mastermind. He was sentenced to a 4-year prison term, restitution payments, and already seized $2,5 Mio have been declared forfeited. According to the current information, there will be several indictments and court cases under #VCT.

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.

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.

September 25, 2020

Vienna Cybercrime Trials – Following the Money to former Vienna Stock Exchange CEO

The Israeli Gal Barak was sentenced to four years in prison in the Vienna Cybercrime Trials ("#VCT"). The court ordered that the seized funds and assets be used for restitution payments to the victims. Currently, this is a few million and thus only a fraction of the stolen funds. Millions of the Gal Barak's scams were processed via the Austrian-Ukraine payment processor Fondy, which is controlled by the former head of the Vienna Stock Exchange Stefan Zapotocky.

September 1, 2020

Breaking News – Israeli scammer Gal Barak sentenced to 4-year-prison-term

The Vienna Cybercrime Trials are over for now. The honorable court today found the Israeli Gal Barak guilty of investment fraud and money laundering. He was sentenced to a 4-year-prison term. He was accused of being a principal of the international cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria, through which he ran binary options and broker scams with his wife Marina Barak and a team of mostly Israeli co-conspirators. It is an extraordinarily important judgment in terms of general prevention and a strong signal to the scammer scene.

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.