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December 8, 2022

Here We Go! Wirecard Trial Starts Today In Munich!

In June 2020, the DAX-listed German fintech unicorn Wirecard collapsed. More than €20 billion in assets were wiped out. A trial against former CEO Braun, among others, starts today. Three former Wirecard executives are accused: former CEO Markus Braun, the former managing director of a Wirecard subsidiary in Dubai, Oliver Bellenhaus, and ex-chief accountant Stephan von Erffa. There are many unanswered questions that this trial is to answer in the 100 hearings scheduled.

December 2, 2022

Popcorn Days: Wirecard Trial Starts With Open Questions About Its Shadow Structure!

The Wirecard trial begins on 8 Dec 2022. The main question will be: Who is responsible for the scandal? Markus Braun, the founder and former CEO, Oliver Bellenhaus, managing director of Wirecard Dubai, and the former head of accounting, Stephan von Erffa have to answer critical questions! Braun and his accomplices are alleged to have operated Wirecard as a criminal organization, the indictment says. The court has scheduled 100 days of hearings. In an underground courtroom.

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November 30, 2022

Deutsche Handelsbank Under Fire For Its Scam Facilitation & Money Laundering Activities!

In the summer of 2020, a Munich court issued a garnishment order to seize the bank accounts of CySEC-regulated Hoch Capital Ltd (file number 1539 M 46463/20). One of the payment processors involved was Deutsche Handelsbank, a notorious scam facilitator. As ordered, Deutsche Handelsbank submitted the data to the court and froze the Hoch Capital Ltd account, which held over €909,000. The company and its individuals are under investigation by German prosecutors on suspicion of investment fraud.

November 10, 2022

Interesting! Explosive Growth Of Porn Payment Processor Payabl.

While former Wirecard CEO Markus Braun prepares in prison for his trial starting in December 2022, the growth of Wirecard successor Payabl is exploding. German-Cypriot high-risk payment processor Payabl was founded by former Wirecard top executives Dietmar Knoechelmann and Ruediger Trautmann. The number of website visitors exploded from around 15,000 in July to more than 306,000 in October 2022. The growth is primarily fueled by porn customers such as xHamsterlive or StripChat.

November 8, 2022

Whistleblower Request: High-Risk Payment Prozessor Epoch And Cyprus Porn Clients!

In the last few weeks, as part of our Wirecard Legacy series, we have started research on high-risk processors for the porn sector. Wirecard was one of the payment processors for the porn empire of the MindGeek group, which operates the porn sites YouPorn and PornHub, among others. In addition, xHamsterLive and StripChat are also large porn sites operated by Technius Ltd, which is registered in Cyprus. Epoch is involved as a payment processor, among others. We would like to know more.

November 7, 2022

Interesting: German-Cyprus Payabl Seems To Be The Leading Porn Payment Processor!

Recently, the online financial magazine FinanceFWD brought a report about the porn customers of the collapsed German high-risk payment processor Wirecard. For years, Wirecard happily processed payments for the porn empire around MindGeek, for example, for their websites PornHub or YouPorn. Today, the former Wirecard top executives Dietmar Knoechelmann and Ruediger Trautmann and their German-Cyprus Payabl Group are among the leading porn payment processors, Similarweb data suggest.

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November 6, 2022

New Reports About Wirecard’s Porn Business!

In 2021, when Commerzbank terminated the account of the porn company Manwin, Wirecard was on the spot. The German fintech did business with the porn industry for longer than ex-CEO Markus Braun portrayed it to the outside world. Wirecard grew to prominence with customers in the gambling and porn industries. Over the years, however, Braun tried to shed the smut image of the early years as best he could. German FinanceFWD recently published an interesting report.

November 5, 2022

BaFin Executive Fired Over Wirecard Scandal!

German regulator BaFin is parting ways with its executive director Beatrice Freiwald after a months-long legal dispute. The German government decided that she has to resign from BaFin's board of directors, the authority announced recently. The Wirecard investigation committee harshly criticized Freiwald. She was responsible for BaFin's whistleblower unit, which did not adequately follow up on information from whistleblowers about Wirecard.

November 2, 2022

Forensic Analysis: How Wirecard Became An International High-Risk Payment Juggernaut!

Wirecard was an unremarkable and not particularly innovative German payment processor until 2007. The international take-off started with the acquisition of Trustpay International AG and the two payment veterans Ruediger Trautmann (2005) and Dietmar Knoechelmann (2006). Wirecard acquired companies from them in complicated and secretive transactions, creating a huge international high-risk payment volume. Here is the story of Wirecard's internationalization.

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November 1, 2022

The Untold Story From Wirecard And Powercash21 To Payabl

The Powercash21 scheme is already over 20 years old and was created parallel to the collapsed Wirecard. At that time, the buzzword fintech was not even known. The domain www.powercash21.com was registered in 2000 by Ruediger Trautmann even before he became COO of Wirecard in 2005. From 2001, the website was operated by the German Inatec Group. Among others, the former Wirecard manager Dietmar Kuhl acted as managing director at Inatec. In or around 2011, the Cyprus-registered Powercash21 Limited then took over the website's operation.

October 17, 2022

FinTelegram, Regulatory Awakening Calls, And The Lessons Learnt!

In April 2020, the Bank of Lithuania, as the competent regulator, revoked the license of Eyal Nachum's Israeli e-money institution Bruc Bond (formerly Moneta International). The revocation was preceded by numerous FinTelegram reports exposing the payment processor's scam-facilitating activities. In October 2020, the Dutch regulator DNB submitted a Payvision report, in which the allegations raised by FinTelegram were apparently confirmed, as the Dutch financial magazine FD notes.

October 7, 2022

Impressive! Payment Processor Payabl Numbers Exploded Powered By Adult Business And Gambling!

The Similarweb September statistics came out and show that the number of visitors to the website of Cypriot-German payment processor Payabl (formerly PowerCash21) increased tenfold in Q3 2022 - from just under 15,000 to almost 140,000. Similarweb says that more than 55% of website traffic has been sourced from porn sites and just under 35% from gambling, betting, and lottery sites. Payabl is thus likely to have replaced the collapsed Wirecard in Germany as the high-risk payment processor, Similarweb suggests!

Cash Cow Crypto: U.S. CFTC Enforcement Sets Records in FY 2024 with $17.1 Billion in Monetary Relief!

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) achieved a landmark year in FY 2024, securing over $17.1 billion in monetary relief, including $2.6 billion in civil penalties and $14.5 billion in restitution. The agency’s groundbreaking actions spanned digital asset (crypto) markets, voluntary carbon credits, and major compliance cases, highlighting its leadership in safeguarding market integrity.

U.S. DOJ’s Whistleblower Pilot Program: 250+ Tips in Just Months!

Whistleblowers are the only effective way to fight financial crime. The U.S. DOJ whistleblower pilot program has already proven effective, generating over 250 tips of potential misconduct since its launch in August, according to Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Marshall Miller. According to a Reuters report, the initiative targets corporate malfeasance and encourages internal self-disclosure by companies.

Online Gambling: Lokinvestigation in Curaçao, its Maltese Connections, and How to Shut Down!

For many years, the far-far-away Curacao was the regulatory mecca of global online gambling. But that is over. The Lokinvestigation, spearheaded by opposition politician and forensic investigator Dr. Luigi Faneyte, reveals systemic failures and alleged corruption in Curaçao’s online gambling sector. With ties to Maltese investors and global financial networks, the report demands transparency but also carries political implications.

KTM’s Collapse: How Pierer and Blazicek Possibly Misled Investors and Profited Amid a €2.9 Billion Crisis!

The recent insolvency filing by KTM AG, Europe's largest motorcycle manufacturer, has unveiled significant managerial failures under CEO Stefan Pierer and Chairman of the Supervisory Board Josef Blasicek of Pierer Mobility AG. Despite clear indicators of financial distress, the company continued to distribute substantial dividends, misleading investors about its fiscal health. Here is an investor update on the KTM case.

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Investor Briefing: Why Elon Musk’s SpaceX is valued at $350 Billion!

SpaceX, Elon Musk's private aerospace company, is reportedly in discussions to sell insider shares at a valuation of approximately $350 billion. This would be double what the company was reportedly selling shares at one year ago. In December 2023, Bloomberg reported SpaceX shares were being sold at a $175 billion valuation. Musk's closeness to Trump is apparently paying off.