Tag: Madhumita Singh

The court-appointed Joint Liquidators submitted a progress report in Feb 2022 providing a sense of the scale of the iPayTotal disaster while outlining how these high-risk payment processors operate. The liquidators identified 13 creditors but only seven reported claims totaling about GBP 1.1 million. These are likely to be the merchants who wanted to receive their payments through iPayTotal. iPayTotal Ltd was just one of many legal entities in the vanished group. So we can assume that the damage to the merchants is actually many times higher. Many millions have disappeared.

It seems that the former people around the collapsed high-risk payment processor iPayTotal have developted a vast network of successor companies. Initially, OctaPay was a successor but since vanished again. Currently, Paypound and Payomatix and the crypto payment processors Cryptomatix and Kryptova are associated with Indian-British iPayTotal co-founder Ruchi Rathor. iPayTotal is active as a fintech software provider through companies in India and Portugal. Ruchi Rathor is still one of the driving forces behind these high-risk payment ventures with close African ties.

FinTelegram has reported several times on the collapse of the notorious British-Indian high-risk payment processor iPayTotal. In Oct 2020, a UK court ordered the insolvency and liquidation of iPayTotal Ltd. In Oct 2021, the successor company iPaySolutions Ltd also filed for liquidation. Since then, iPayTotal has been relabeled into a FinTech software company operated by IPT Solutions PT, Portugal, which also runs the crypto payment platform CryptoMatix with iPayTotal co-founder Ruchi Rathor. Here is the update!

In March 2021, we reported the disappearance of the high-risk processor OctaPay, which was allegedly the successor to the infamous collapsed iPayTotal. Both reportedly each disappeared with their merchants' money. In Feb 2021, Octapay Limited applied for a voluntary strike-off, suspended by Companies House. There is another version of OctaPay with a different domain and logo still active as a high-risk payment processor in Brazil. If and how these OctaPay ventures are related, we do not yet know.

isappeared a few months ago. FinTelegram reported! According to our information, they had brutally ripped off a lot of their merchants. Among these merchants were also many operators of scams and cybercrime ventures that had stolen the money anyway. Paypound, a successor to iPayTotal and OctaPay, a whistleblower claims, has emerged and offers its payment services to the high-risk segment. Or so it says.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Christian van Biezen lives and works in Limassol, Cyprus, one of the European powerhouses of Forex brokers, which are part of a high-risk industry, whether regulated or unregulated. Consequently, a highly active high-risk payment processor scene has developed around these Cypriot forex brokers. OctaPay was one of them, and Christian van Biezen was its director until he realized it was defrauding its merchants. So he left in December 2020, exposing the crime. As a result, OctaPay and its people vanished with most of its customer funds.

It's not really a surprise. On the contrary, industry insiders expected it. OctaPay, the high-risk payment processor launched just a few months ago, has disappeared with its high-risk clients' funds. Its websites are offline, as are LinkedIn profiles such as those of CEO Madhumita Singh. According to UK Companies House, she also resigned as a director of OctaPay Limited on March 11, 2021, and is no longer the beneficial owner. She is, however, still a director of PSP Technology Limited and PSP Network Limited.

The iPayTotal Ltd entity in the UK is insolvent and being wound up. We have reported on this, and these reports are widely read and widely shared. The high-risk processor, which is controversial in the scene, has received catastrophic ratings on rating platforms like Reviews in recent and weeks from apparently dissatisfied merchants who are not getting their money. They also refer to the alleged fake officer Jason Smith. We would like to know more about him and whether he is a real person at all.

A UK court entered an order to wind-up the iPayTotal Ltd. And then rumours relating Octapay Group to iPayTotal. Octopay's former CEO, Christian van Biezen was fired for various alleged misconduct. However, Biezen told FinTelegram that he refused to participate in the Octapay scam and was fired because of it. He claims that the economic owners behind Octapay would be identical to those behind iPayTotal. Now a new Chief Experience Officer, Davina Mungroo, has been appointed at iPayTotal.

Troubles at high-risk payment processor Octapay which is allegedly conntected to iPayTotal through Vishal Coodye and its Rashal International LLC. Yesterdy, Octapay announced that its European CEO Christian V. was fired on accusations of an extensive list of serious malicious activities. We would like to learn more about Octapay and its activities.

Octapay Limited was founded on 16 September 2020. According to UK Companies House, the sole director and beneficial owner is Madhumita Singh. The company acts as a payment processor for high-risk merchants in gaming, crypto and forex operating the websites www.octapay.fund. And it seems to be related to iPayTotal.