Tag: Moneta International

In a shocking turn of events, the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania (SACL) ruled that ABC Projektai, formerly Bruc Bond and Moneta International, can regain its e-money license. This decision raises serious questions, given the firm's notorious involvement as a payment processor for the fraudulent binary options industry. Bruc Bond, established by the Israelis Eyal Nachum and Tamir Zoltovsky, was infamous for facilitating vast binary options fraud schemes.

In April 2020, the Bank of Lithuania, as the competent regulator, revoked the license of Eyal Nachum's Israeli e-money institution Bruc Bond (formerly Moneta International). The revocation was preceded by numerous FinTelegram reports exposing the payment processor's scam-facilitating activities. In October 2020, the Dutch regulator DNB submitted a Payvision report, in which the allegations raised by FinTelegram were apparently confirmed, as the Dutch financial magazine FD notes.

It is a cold case now but still not resolved! Between 2018 and 2020, FinTelegram exposed that a group of Israeli payment processors controlled by Eyal Nachum and his partner Tamir Zoltovsky facilitated binary options and broker scams big style. They worked with entities in Montenegro or the Marshall Islands and with the regulated e-Money Institutions Bruc Bond (previously Moneta International) and International FinTech. In April 2020, the Bank of Lithuania revoked Bruc Bond's EMI license; consequently, the group vanished from Europe, but their scam-facilitating activities remain to be investigated.

A penalty is usually not an occasion for gratitude. That would also make the purpose of a punishment absurd. Usually, one is grateful for a received punishment only if one is aware that one has gotten away well with this punishment and should actually have been punished much worse. A driver who is speeding while massively impaired by alcohol or other drugs certainly grateful is grateful if he is punished by the police only for speeding and not for the offense of driving under the influence (DUI). Similarly, GlobalNetInt (GNI) shows itself grateful for the penalization by the Bank of Lithuania.

The spot is on Lithuania! The Financial Times reported that German prosecutors suspect that more than €100M was stolen from Wirecard via the licensed Lithuanian Finolita Unio. Via this fintech, at least €35M was said to have flowed to fugitive ex-Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek and another €65M to the now insolvent company oCap (previously Senjo Trading) in Singapore. Both Finolita Unio and oCap are part of the Senjo Group, one of Wirecard's most important partners in Asia, and received a loan of €350M from the latter. Finolita Unio CEO Danas Oliskevicius rejects the accusations and blames the German BaFin.

Whistleblowers provided documents proving that Lithuanian registered e-money institution (EMI) GlobalNetint UAB is involved in numerous scams as a payment processor. This is for example extensively documented in the "Maxigrid Case" with the associated scams RoyalsFX and LincolnFX. The CySEC-regulated Maxigrid itself has processed payments from victims of scams via its bank accounts with GlobalNetint.

The two Israeli FinTech entrepreneurs Eyal Nachum and Tamir Zolovsky are not having a good time right now. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, their two licensed EU e-Money Institutions Bruc Bond and International Fintech saw their licenses terminated. In the case of Bruc Bond because of systematic compliance violations and problems with money laundering. Nachum, Zoltovsky. and their various payment processors have a long track record in the scam area.

According to reports by Lithuanian journalist Vakaris Deksnys, the Bank of Lithuania has terminated the license of the International FinTech UAB of Israelis Eyal Nachum and Tamir Zoltovsky without providing a reason. It already happened in July 2020. No statement was given by the regulator on this matter as it would be necessary and required. That's a strange approach. How can a regulated company simply disappear form an EU regulator's list without further explanation?

The International FinTech UAB of the Israelis Eyal Nachum and Tamir Zoltovsky has no more license in Lithuania. Thus, within a few months, the two Israeli payment pundits have lost both regulated companies in Lithuania. Already in April 2020, the Bank of Lithuania withdrew the license of Bruc Bond (formerly Moneta International) due to systematic violations of the compliance guidelines and problems with money laundering. At present, it is not clear why International Fintech has also lost its license.

The Israeli Eyal Nachum is certainly an experienced Payment & FinTech veteran. And Nachum is just as surely familiar in dealing with the high-risk and dark business segments as payment processor. In April 2020, Nachum's Lithuanian payment processor Bruc Bond was revoked by the Bank of Lithuania for serious and systematic regulatory violations. Now he is making himself heard again.

The FinTelegram News sites as well as the newly established ScamGrinder pages have been under heavy DDoS attacks for more than two weeks. Once again. And most likely we will be under DDoS attack as long as we breathe. This is the price of fighting cybercrime and scammers. These criminals have the financial means and the contacts to organize the Dark Web against FinTelegram News.

The fight against scammers and fraudsters from Israel is getting more and more interesting. And even legally absurd....