Tag: Rudolph Booker

There is no end to the drama surrounding the disgraced Dutch FinTech and high-risk payment processor Payvision. The ING subsidiary and its founders Rudolph Booker, Gijs op de Weegh, and Cheng Liem Li have been facing allegations of having facilitated scams and cybercrime for many years. In addition to criminal investigations and victims' claims, there are also lawsuits in the U.S. filed against Payvision and its spin-off Cetler. They allegedly were working in collusion with the T1 Payments group. Here's the story.

In September 2021, the Israeli cybercrime kingpin Gal Barak was sentenced to four years in prison for investment fraud and money laundering in Austria. German prosecutors, led by Nino Goldberg, also want to charge Gal Barak, see him convicted and sentenced to prison. Barak appealed against the indictment; the case is currently before the European Court of Justice. Barak's former boiler room manager Tal-Jacki Fitelzon has already been indicted. Barak's former partner in crime, Uwe Lenhoff, died in prison last year, but his co-conspirators will be indicted. Barak and Lenhoff allegedly produced more than 200,000 victims in Germany!

The Dutch high-risk payment processor Payvision is deeply involved in the swamp of broker scams around the Vienna Cybercrime Trials. It allegedly wilfully and knowingly facilitated broker fraud and money laundering. The presumption of innocence applies. Today's announcement of a partnership with the global hospitality platform Selina has to be appreciated. The idea is to provide Selina clients with ultimate payment experiences while traveling. Not an easy business model in the COVID-19 pandemic but hello, positive news though.

EFRI was founded in 2018 by FinTelegram together with auditors, lawyers, and victims of scams. The NGO initiated a mass movement with more than 1,000 registered victims and members. EFRI represents the interests of victims towards scammers and their facilitators. The Dutch FinTech Payvision was one of them. EFRI even goes so far as to call Payvision the Wirecard of the Netherlands.

The extent of the damage caused by scam facilitating FinTechs is very clearly shown by the ING subsidiary Payvision. The Dutch Fintech processes some €130 million just for the scams of the two now-imprisoned Uwe Lenhoff (Germany) and Gal Barak (Israel). Thanks to the investigations many sad hypothesis around FinTechs and their role as cybercrime facilitators have been proved by facts and evidence.