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September 16, 2021

Gery Shalon – The Plea Deal and the forfeited fortune of a cybercrime mastermind

In 2015, U.S. prosecutors charged the Georgia-born Israeli citizen Gery "Gabi" Shalon in a twenty-three count Superseding Indictment. He was charged with computer hacking, securities fraud, aggravated identity theft, illegal online gambling, illegal money transmitting business, and money laundering. Most of the files are still unsealed. What is known now is that in April 2017, Shalon has pled guilty to all 23 counts and made a plea deal with prosecutors that included transferring all seized funds and assets to the United States. We are talking about a real big fortune. We are talking about a real big fortune including a $74.7M bank account.

August 21, 2021

Background Report – International cybercrime, Bet90, and the dirty Maltese connections!

It was perhaps the largest cybercrime organization in Europe, but certainly, it was in Germany. The public prosecutor's office announced that the cybercrime case surrounding the German Uwe Lenhoff, who died in prison, had produced more than 200,000 victims in Germany alone. Lenhoff and Dutch real estate investor Dirk-Jan Bakker established Veltyco Group PLC, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange. After Lenhoff's death, the company was renamed B90 Holdings PLC and operates the Bet90 sportsbook platform , licensed by the MGA. Bet90 has been funded with money stolen from the victims in this very same cybercrime case.

January 19, 2021

Trinity Files – The U.S Case of Gery Shalon, Vienna Cybercrime Trials, and Russian connections

The Georgian-born Israeli Gery "Gabi" Shalon is arguably the mastermind of the world's largest cybercrime organization, stretching over the U.S., Europe, Russia, Georgia, Israel into Asia. The Israeli accountant Ziv Orenstein was one of Shalon's deputies in the U.S. There, they operated illegal gaming schemes and performed the largest cybercrime attack ever on the U.S. financial industry. While waiting for his U.S. trial Shalon continues to operate his cybercrime ventures.

January 8, 2021

Gery Shalon Case – Russian home office hacker Andrei Tyurin sentenced to 12 years prison term

The Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 144 months in prison for his role in the largest financial hacker attack in US history, which was masterminded and coordinated by the Georgia-born Israeli cybercrime supervillain Gery "Gabi" Shalon. Tyurin has pleaded guilty to the charges and allegedly earned more than $19 Mio for his job. Tyurin controlled hacking activities through a computer infrastructure on five continents from his home office in Moscow.

March 2, 2020

Alleged Russian money-laundering scheme loses millions in bankruptcy of Austrian Meinl Bank

Early 2019, the Austrian Meinl Bank filed a money laundering report to the competent authorities on the basis of the reports of FinTelegram. The object of the suspicious activities report (SAR) was Keyring Holdings Ltd of the Russian Vladislav “Vlad” Smirnov (aka Vladislav Khokholkov). With the bank's insolvency the money is most likely gone.

March 2, 2020

Austrian Anglo Austrian (Meinl Bank) files for bankruptcy; Russian money-laundering scheme loses millions!

On 31 January 2019, the Austrian Meinl Bank (renamed into Anglo Austrian AAB Bank) reported one of its clients to the competent authorities on the..

September 24, 2019

JP Morgan hack – Gery Shalon’s co-conspirator Andrei Tyurin pleaded guilty to big-style financial crime

The Russian citizen Andrei Tyurin was arrested in the Republic of Georgia and extradited to the U.S. last year, faces hefty fines. He was pleading guilty to charges that he stole data on more than 80 million clients of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and other institutions that netted hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.

March 20, 2019

Bloomberg Report Confirms FinTelegram Findings In Gery Shalon Case

The Israeli Gery “Gabi” Shalon is the accused mastermind of one of the biggest cybercrime organization. He was arrested in July 2015 in Israel and..

February 26, 2019

Illegal Brokers – E&G Bulgaria Is Not Only Gal Barak And Marina Andreeva

The police just recently announced the results of their enforcement action against the cybercrime organization headed by Gal Barak, Marina Andreeva and their E&G Bulgaria...

February 26, 2019

Shota Shalelashvili Asked About FinTelegram Report in Georgian TV

FinTelegram reports start to go viral. Thanks to our many supporters and whistleblowers, FinTelegram has been able to establish a case around Gery Shalon and..

February 11, 2019

Exodus E&G Bulgaria: The Georgian Boiler Room Operator Alpha Marketing

Update Feb 11, 2018, 4pm: we reached out to David ‘Dudi’ Shemesh a few weeks ago already with the request for answers. He then refused..

February 11, 2019

Illegal Broker Scheme’s New Home: Good Morning Georgia!

Update Feb 11, 2018: We received information and documents that some of the top managers of the illegal Bulgarian scheme of Gal Barak already moved..