Between 2010 and 2018 Israeli binary options schemes conquered and deceived naive investors around the world. Millions of investors worldwide have lost up to $50 billion. With binary options also came the breakthrough of online payment processors, payment orchestrators, and paytechs. Sarel Tal with his brands AlgoCharge, Seroph, or FremainPay was a payment facilitator for binary options schemes. They have since disappeared. Sarel Tal is working as VP EMEA for regulated fintech Rapyd.
FinTelegram research has been uncovered that the Good Option and Royal Broker binary options scams were operated by the Anguilla-registered G.O. Limited between 2014 and 2015. These and other scams have been facilitated by the Cyprus-based Payment Processor AlgoCharge of the Israeli Sarel Tal who acts as the director of AlgoPay Limited registered in Cyprus. Today all companies and websites have disappeared or are about to.
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.