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March 23, 2023

Breaking: European Court Of Justice Approves German Trial Against Gal Barak

Israeli cybercrime mastermind Gal Barak was sentenced in Vienna in September 2020 to four years imprisonment for investment fraud and money laundering. In 2021, Gal Barak was to be extradited from the Austrian prison to Germany because he was also to be charged there. His lawyer has appealed against this, invoking the principle of ne bis in idem. Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Gal Barak can be charged in Germany.

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.

September 23, 2022

Gal Barak – The Former Cybercrime Boss And His Gang!

Israeli Gal Barak, as principal of the E&G Bulgaria cybercrime organization, was sentenced in Vienna in September 2020 to several years in prison and more than €4 million in restitution. He was released on parole in the fall of 2021 and reportedly returned to Israel by private jet. There he established the Vantage Fund for convicted cybercriminals. His lieutenant Maor Sioni recently got married in Israel. Gal Barak plus his E&G Bulgaria gang were invited and pictured.

September 16, 2022

German Prosecutors Got Another Israeli Boiler Room Arrested!

Simona Weinglass of The Times of Israel reported that the Greek police arrested the Israeli citizen and Cyprus resident Ori Nagar, 37, at an airport in Thessaloniki last month. German prosecutors had issued an arrest warrant on charges of online investment fraud. Nagar allegedly was one of the ring leaders of a broker and boiler room scam network that defrauded German victims by €1.4 million. Germany requested his extradition.

August 28, 2022

Binary Options Legacy: The German Trial Against The LibraMarkets Scheme And Its Impact!

The days of the fraudulent Israeli binary options industry are over in 2018, and many of the firms have disappeared. Millions of investors worldwide were..

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.

January 28, 2022

International law enforcement action takes down cybercrime organization in Bulgaria

Evidently, Gal Barak's E&G Bulgaria was not the only cybercrime organization in Bulgaria. On 26 January 2022, the Bulgarian National Police and their international colleagues took down a cybercrime organization allegedly defrauding mainly German and Greek investors of at least EUR 10 million. They searched 24 locations, seized data, computer equipment, and arrested one suspect. Police officers interrogated 66 witnesses in Sofia and Burgas.

January 26, 2022

Cool! German prosecutors forfeited and auctioned the scammers’ luxury cars!

Gal Barak‘s Lieutenant Jacki Fitelzon was most recently sentenced to 82 months in prison in Munich. Fitelzon pleaded guilty as charged to being part of..

January 13, 2022

Cybercrime activist Jacki Fitelzon sentenced to an 82-months prison time

The sentence was even a bit harder than we expected. On January 12, 2022, the verdict against the Israeli citizen Jacki Fitelzon was handed down in the court in Munich. The Israeli was one of the co-conspirators of Gal Barak, the so-called Wolf of Sofia. Fitelzon had pleaded guilty to the charges and has now been sentenced to 82 months in prison for commercial and gang fraud. It was also confiscated €760,000. The sentence is not yet final. Fitelzon asked to be transferred to a rehab facility, which the court ordered!

December 10, 2021

Cybercrime war – German prosecutors arrested some 30 suspects worldwide, and counting!

The trial of Israeli citizen Tal-Jacki Fitelzon is currently underway in Munich. He was one of Gal Barak's lieutenants in his cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. Three former boiler room employees of E&G Bulgaria had already been sentenced to 33, 48, and 54 months in prison in Germany. According to one of the responsible public prosecutors, Bavaria-based Nino Goldbeck, some 30 suspected cybercrime activists sit currently in prisons in pre-trial detention worldwide at the request of German and Austrian law enforcement.

November 29, 2021

Video showing the arrest of cybercrime activist Kfir Levy in the Philippines

Israeli citizen Tal-Jacki "Jacki" Fitelzon is currently on trial in Munich. He is accused of being a ringleader of Gal Barak's cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. On the first day of the trial in Munich, Jacki Fitelzon pleaded guilty and confirmed that E&G Bulgaria was a criminal organization. His co-conspirator, Israeli Kfir Levy, was arrested in the Philippines in October 2021 at the request of German prosecutors. Here is the video of his arrest while he was in a restaura

November 29, 2021

Whistleblower Campaign – Gal Barak wanted for failed restitution payments!

In September 2020, an Austrian court sentenced the Israeli citizen Gal Barak to four years in prison and a payment of around €4.2 million for investment fraud and money laundering. He was the boss of the cybercrime organization E&G Bulgaria. Of that, €2.5 million has already been seized by authorities from the bank accounts of Gal Barak and his companies. Barak should have paid another €1.7 million within 14 days to the 212 victims represented by EFRI in the trial. Barak failed to pay and fulfill the court order properly. Further legal action against Barak is therefore imminent.