This Canadian BCSC recently issued a warning against the illegally operating offshore broker LQDFX (www.lqdfx.com). LQD Limited in the Marshall Islands is the operator. This unregulated offshore broker has been co-founded and controlled by Ozan Ozerk, a director and beneficial owner of the CySEC-regulated EuroTrader Group, and his partner Soteris Georgiou. LQDFX and the offshore EuroTrader broker schemes illegally acquires investors in Europe and North America and onboard clients in deliberate violation of KYC/AML procedures!
EuroTrader is a forex and CFD broker brand owned and operated by the EuroTrader Group, a group of regulated companies owned by the fintech entrepreneur Ozan Ozerk. Until at least April 2021, the latter has also been one of the founders and beneficial owners behind the offshore broker LQDFX. Since we published our report about the EuroTrader Group in April 2021 and exposed the offshore activities around the Marshall Islands-registered EuroTrade Global Ltd, some significant changes have been made.
We have brought a first report on the activities of brokers brands EuroTrader and LQDFX some ago. The EuroTrader group is regulated by CySEC for its activities in the EU. However, besides that, the group operates offshore mutations via entities in the Marshall Islands and South Africa. The FinTech emperor Ozan Ozerk controls both EuroTrader and the unregulated LQDFX. The British accountant Soteris Georgiou is also registered as Ozerk's long-time partner and accountant as the offshore entities' beneficial owner. Here is an update.