Kai Christian Petersen, who lives in Düsseldorf, Germany, was a major player in the binary options and forex fraud industry between 2014 and 2020, directly or indirectly controlling a number of companies through which scams and boiler rooms were operated and tens of thousands of retail investors were defrauded of hundreds of millions of Euros. The SEC claims that with the three scams, Bloomberg Options, Morton Finance, and Starling Capital, Petersen and his accomplices ripped off $100 million. And these were only three of many other scams.