@retheauditors@premnsikka 1/ while the #ICO brought to book with a £135k fine pensions cold calling cowboys CPS Advisory Ltd decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/welsh-fir…, turns out CPS Advisory’s Messrs Cullen, Payne & Standish also controlled another Swansea based alleged cold calling op ...
2/ JMR Financial Ltd. Messrs Cullen, Payne & Standish also control FCA IFA’s (auth by the regulatory cat flap - A.R.’s) “Secure For Life Limited” secureforlife.co.uk and “SFL Wealth Management Ltd” sflwealth.co.uk. James Michael Cullen is a FCA IFA assisted by ...
3/ “regulatory capflap”(A.R.) veterans & FCA IFA ranch hands veteran Ms Anna Marie Payne & Nigel John Ogden. Mr Standish however had bigger fish to fry as allegedly a director of notorious “We Claim U Gain Ltd” part of infamous Neville Wiltshire’s “Save Britain Money Ltd” ...
1/ ‘Oliver Ryan’ (Labour MP - Burnley, Padiham & Brierfield), UNMASKED as second ‘Tameside Council’ linked @UKLabour MP member (along with ‘Andrew Gwynne’, Labour MP - Gorton and Denton) of ‘vile WhatsApp group in which racist, sexist & anti-Semitic messages were exchanged’ ().dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
2/ ‘Tameside Council’, next door to ‘Oldham Council’ (of ‘grooming gang’ infamy), has been a ‘rotten borough’ for years. ‘Oliver Ryan’, one of many @UKLabour nepo-babies, is the son of a Tameside Councillor & was a Tameside Councillor at age 19 (2015) - one of “the gang”.
3/ A 09/2016 ‘Tameside Council’ document ‘REVIEW OF CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION’ noted “over the last 2 years, a series of inquiries & reviews have highlighted significant weaknesses in our collective action to protect vulnerable children and young people from sexual exploitation”.
1/ Russian #FSB reportedly raided an alleged #MiltonGroup linked investment scam call centre in Moscow, allegedly responsible for defrauding 100,000 people in 50 countries: 11 arrests (). < Warning: note possible disinformation >themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/09/rus…
2/ Russian #FSB claimed the call center was part of an international network, the #MiltonGroup, originally exposed in 2020 by a consortium of more than 20 news outlets around the world, including #DagensNyheter in Sweden, @OCCRP & #TimesofIsrael (dn.se/nyheter/sverig… AND occrp.org/en/organizatio… AND timesofisrael.com/israeli-run-sc…).
3/ The #FSB reportedly said it had arrested 11 incl. an Israeli-Ukrainian citizen ‘J. D. Keselman’ alleged to be one of the company’s heads. An arrest warrant reportedly was also issued for an Israeli-Georgian citizen ‘D. Todua’, alleged to be the other company head.
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ ‘'Solid gold' payments card case exposes limits of UK regulator (@theFCA). Arrest of #Nvayo's Christopher Scanlon raises questions about @theFCA’s ability to oversee digital payments sector. (). #Emoney #OpenBanking ft.com/content/20e7ed…
2/ In 06/2017 #OnlineGambling op #GVC Holdings Plc (f/k/a #Entain) announced the completion of the sale of it’s ‘controversial’ in house #FCA auth. payment processing & card issuing group: ‘#Kalixa Group’ (f/k/a ‘#CQR Group’) that came in #GVC’s acquisition of ‘controversial’ #OnlineGambling op #BWIN.Party.
3/ Surprisingly, #Kalixa Group was sold by #GVC for a fraction of its expected value to #Senjo Group, (linked to the #Wirecard scandal). Surprisingly, a month later it was announced that #GVC had sold part of #Kalixa Group: ‘BW Pay Ltd’ (up until shortly before the #Senjo sale named #Kalixa Pay - a #FCA auth debit card issuer/#Emoney op) to (UBO) Christopher Scanlon.
1/ #Wirecard’s former CFO ‘Burkhard Ley’ charged by German prosecutors with #fraud, 3 years after the now notorious German payment processing unicorn #Wirecard imploded. But who was ‘Burkhard Ley’ ? (‘Wirecard’s Mr Teflon’ - ). handelsblatt.com/finanzen/banke…
2/ Burkhard Ley was a bank clerk at a German savings bank (1982-8) before joining the now notorious #SalOppenheim private bank (1988-2000), rising to its director of corporate Finance. #SalOppenheim was one of Europe’s biggest/most conservative private banks, interacting with …
3/ the ‘German elite’ since 1789. That all changed when purportedly ‘Baron Christopher von Oppenheim’ took over the management of the bank in the 90s, surrounding himself with ‘outsiders’ - the bank allegedly going ‘full tonto’ in both risky & shady ‘investment banking business’.
1/ #Wirecard’s former CFO ‘Burkhard Ley’ charged by German prosecutors with #fraud, 3 years after the now notorious German payment processing unicorn #Wirecard imploded. But who was ‘Burkhard Ley’ ? (‘Wirecard’s Mr Teflon’ - Handelsblatt 10/2021 - ). drive.google.com/file/d/1vo5dQQ…
2/ ‘Burkhard Ley’ was a bank clerk at a German savings bank (1982-8) before joining the now notorious #SalOppenheim private bank (1988-2000), rising to its director of corporate Finance. #SalOppenheim, was one of Europe’s biggest & most conservative private banks, interacting …
3/ with the ‘German elite’ since 1789. That all changed when ‘Baron Christopher von Oppenheim’ took over the management of the bank in the 1990s, surrounding himself with ‘outsiders’ - the bank allegedly going ‘full tonto’ in both risky & shady ‘investment banking business’.
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ #RationalFX: Yet another of Blinky’s (@theFCA) ‘big fish’ from its uber notorious #Emoney/#FX scene bites the dust & put in to ‘special administration’, leaving 10s of 1000s of it’s customers ‘in limbo’ & unprotected by @FSCS (). fca.org.uk/news/news-stor…
2/ #RationalFX collapsed in to insolvency a few days ago, it’s long term (since 2013 y/end) auditor (#CLAEvelynPartners) signed off it’s last (UNqualified) 2022 y/end audited accounts on 23/03/2023 this year - in the background, the dual ‘red flags’ of: an extended (18 month) …
3/ reporting period; & in this extended period, the resignation of its owner (Rajesh Agrawal) as a director. A quick squizz at the last filed accounts turned up two rather strange items. Firstly, a rather strange (‘Other Income’) note to the accounts: ~ £1m in ‘’receipts from …