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March 19, 2023

Binary Options Fraud Scheme Greymountain Management And The Irish Court Order!

The binary options scheme GreyMountain Management (GMM), run by the Cartu Brothers was probably one of the world's largest binary options fraud schemes between 2014 and 2017. According to various estimates, they received between €150 to 250 million from investors. The Irish High Court found that the Canadian-Israeli brothers David Cartu and Jonathan Cartu were shadow directors of the Irish GMM and actually ran the Irish company and the GMM fraud scheme. They are liable for investor losses.

December 13, 2022

Wirecard Trial: They Surely Had A Third-Party Acquiring Network!

In the second day of the Wirecard trial, defense attorneys delivered their opening statements. As expected, the defense attorney of former CEO Markus Braun argued that the controversial Third-Party-Acquiring (TPA) had taken place. On the other hand, the defense counsel of Oliver Bellenhaus, who is the prosecution's key witness, claimed that the TPA businessdid not exist. We are certain that the largely dirty TPA business did exist and that many illegal transactions and scams were conducted via it.

September 3, 2020

Binary options fraud – Notorious Cartu Brothers charged by U.S. CFTC

It is a court season for the fraudulent binary options industry and its perpatrators. Among the worst scammers were David Cartu and his brothers. After the Canadian regulator OSC had already sued them for binary options fraud, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action. The regulator charges six individuals and four companies with operating a fraudulent binary options trading scheme that received over $165 million via their Irish GreyMountain Management Ltd.

May 16, 2020

Wirecard Drama – Another Dubai company vanished into thin air!

The payment service provider Wirecard is not running out of negative headlines. That's for sure. The special audit report submitted by KPMG at the end of April 2020 has greatly increased the pressure on the DAX-listed German FinTech, its CEO Markus Braun, and finally its auditor EY. Since then, the share price has plummeted from more than €138 to €76.36 on May 15, 2020.

May 5, 2020

Wirecard drama continues – what about the pink elephant called money-laundering for big illegal organizations?

With the KPMG special audit report on the table Wirecard still pretends to believe that the accusations of balance sheet manipulation, irregularities in accounting, kick-back payments, and lack of transparency raised from many sides have been refuted or at least not been confirmed. The accusations of money-laundering in the context of client relationships with cybercrime organizations and scam operators are not dealt with at all. Admittedly, the scope of the special audit of KPMG did not include this pink elephant in the room.

November 25, 2019

WireCard Issue in Ireland – How binary options scheme operator GeyMountain Management became a related WireCard company

The listed German Fintech WireCard is being shaken by a crisis that has lasted for months. The situation was triggered by reports in the Financial Times..

July 15, 2019

GreyMountain Case – Irish HighCourt admitted investors’ lawsuit to fast track Commercial List

Good news for the victims of the GreyMountain Management (GMM) scams of the Israelis David Cartu and Jonathan Cartu and their partner Uri Katz. According..

April 27, 2019

Deciphering the GreyMountain Management And Wirecard Mystery I

While the U.S. authorities and courts consequently work their way through the fraudulent binary options industry the Europeans are rather clueless. The Irish GreyMountain Management..

March 27, 2019

Wirecard, GreyMountain, And The Binary Options Fraud Machine (Part II)

In part I of our reports on the Wirecard involvement in the binary options industry we exposed the company’s partnership with Israeli SpotOption, the leading..

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.

CFTC

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.