Tag: Oleg Shvartsman

The case around the fraudulent binary options industry and its facilitating payment processors is still not closed. The illegal German payment processor B2G GmbH, operated by Rainer Treuer and Oleg Shvartsman, has been implicated in facilitating large-scale financial fraud. This report outlines the known details of their activities, the legal actions taken, and the unanswered questions surrounding their lack of prosecution.

FinTelegram has reported several times between 2018 and 2019 about illegally operating German payment processors that supported binary options and broker scams. Among these illegal German payment processors were P2P GmbH and B2G GmbH. EFRI filed money laundering charges against the two companies; German prosecutors subsequently filed charges and seized €2.5 million of P2P bank accounts in 2019 but, to date, failed to make restitution payments to victims. On the contrary, the millions will remain with the German state for a long time: a scandal but this time on the side of the German prosecutors and courts.

To be exact, the prosecutors filed charges against the individuals behind the illegal payment processor B2G. We have reported extensively in recent years about the Cologne registered B2G GmbH and its principals, the German Rainer Treuer and former Russian secret agent Oleg Shvartsman. B2G was one of the very big notorious German laundromats and scam facilitators in the binary option era. Among others, they laundered money for Gal Barak and E&G Bulgaria and dozens of other scams.

Cybercrime organizations need fake companies for their business through which they can launder their illegally obtained funds. For example, the deposits of victims of scams are processed through these illegal payment processors. Many of them are German companies that are very popular among cybercriminals. These provide their bank accounts on illegal funds are laundered with false information. This week, BaFin issued a Cease and Desist Order against the two illegal payment processors, Widestep and WebMaster Solutions.

The illegal German payment processors are very popular among the worldwide scammer community. Companies like B2G of Rainer Treuer and his Russian partner Oleg Shvartsman have processed tens of millions of scammers like Gal Barak or Uwe Lenhoff and contributed to the fraud of tens of thousands of small investors. In October 2020, BaFin issued a Cease and Desist Order against the German Egramming, which allegedly facilitated the crypto scam Capital Coin Exchange, among others. The order is final now!

The German regulator has issued a Cease and Desist Order against the illegal payment processor Global Data Conduct GmbH, a company registered in Cologne, Germany. This German company at least acted as facilitator for the broker Scam TradesFX, received bank transfers from client victims and forwarded them to the scammers. The sole managing director of the company is Anatolijs Dedenko, who lives in Düsseldorf.

The unauthorized and thus illegally operating German payment processor TrustSecure GmbH has been operating since 2017. Initially, the company was founded at the end of 2017 as SCRI-Alpha 961 GmbH as an asset management company. Already in January 2018, the company was renamed to Trustsecure GmbH and Serghei Grodetchi with official residence in Düsseldorf was appointed as managing director. The BaFin issued another cease-and-desist order to TrustSecure in the context of the broker scams FDM Trade Online and TradesPrime.

The unauthorized and thus illegally operating German payment processor TrustSecure GmbH has been operating since 2017. Initially, the company was founded at the end of 2017 as SCRI-Alpha 961 GmbH as an asset management company. Already in January 2018, the company was renamed to Trustsecure GmbH and Serghei Grodetchi with official residence in Düsseldorf was appointed as managing director. The BaFin issued another cease-and-desist order to TrustSecure in the context of the broker scams FDM Trade Online and TradesPrime.

Founded in 2016 in Cologne, Germany, by German Rainer Treuer (LinkedIn profile) and his Russian partner Oleg Shvartsman (LinkedIn profile), B2G GmbH was one of the leading illegal payment processors until it was uncovered by law enforcement. According to the findings of the investigating EU authorities in various countries, B2G may have facilitated hundreds of cybercrime & scam ventures. Shvartsman and Treuer are also engaged in the real-estate sector.

It seems that the German fintech and payment processor scene is run by secret agents and spies. Especially such agents who are said to have a close relationship to the Russian secret services. In this secret service-driven German fintech scene, it comes as no surprise that the topic of illegal payment services and money laundering seems to be its driving forces. Russia's secret services seem to maintain good relationships with the German fintech and payment processor ecosystem.

Until recently, Germany had a good reputation in the financial sector although its banking industry has significant structural problems. All the more reason to be proud of Wirecard. The DAX-listed German fintech managed by the two Austrians Markus Braun and Jan Marsalek seemed to be the superstar in the booming market of next-generation payment processors. Until it collapsed. But there are several dubious German fintechs and payment processors that are active in the worldwide cybercrime scene. Michael Gastauer and his group of companies should be mentioned here.

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.