@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ While @thefca slumbered, their FCA made men/women wet their beaks in the notorious dark world of “entrepreneurial” aka “Golden Visa’s”. In 2018 the UK suspended “Golden Visa’s over endemic #MoneyLaundering concerns independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… AND ...
2/ transparency.org.uk/sites/default/…. The FCA’s made men/women aren’t fussy, their target demographic at the top end usually Chinese “big crocs” & FSU “mini-me oligarchs”. This week @TheFCA woke up from its slumber + stopped #DolfinFinancial (UK) Ltd from carrying out regulated ...
3/ activities(fxnewsgroup.com/forex-news/reg… AND fca.org.uk/news/news-stor…) citing “serious concerns over the way Dolfin operated it’s business, including Tier1 Visa ops & financial crime controls”. The FCA was very quiet though about the seemingly all consuming Russian #CryptoCrap ..
4/ activities of Dolfin honchos. Not so quiet were the Gazprom alumni at Moscow’s #GemCapital Group, who in 2019 filed a UK High Court claim against Dolfin & 2 of its directors claiming a $9.25m crypto fraud against them. The alleged crypto fraud it’s reported related ...
5/ primarily allegedly to the #Vostok private blockchain ICO platform, a derivative of the “Waves” public ICO platform. It was reported that Dolfin “coordinated + managed the delivery of the deal” in 2018. Gem Capital’s MD alleged his group was persuaded to invest in a ...
6/ #cryptocurrency project by Roman Joukovski, co-founder of Dolfin & director of a Dolfin subsidiary. Gem Capital’s MD alleges they did not receive the crypto assets & when Mr Joukovski was asked to return the $9.25m it was alleged that Mr Joukovski stated he did not know ...
7/ where the money was + that “the monies were not in Dolfin”. Comments worthy of one of the #FCA’s notorious DFM’s. Unsurprisingly with the Dolfin honchos seeming obsession with Russian crypto it wasn’t Dolfin’s first crypto rodeo. The infamous PrimalBase ICO springs to ...
8/ mind, on unsurprisingly the Waves ICO platform. Needless to say it didn’t go well (egi.co.uk/news/what-real…). Fascinatingly Dolfin’s CTO surfed not just the PrimalBase ICO & “Waves” but Dolfin as well, to land up on the Major of London’s gravy train - MMC Greater London Fund.
9/ Meanwhile as the FCA was slumbering in 2019, Dolfin acquired the private client subsidiary ($1b client assets) of the allegedly notorious Swiss private bank “#FalconPrivateBank” - allegedly notorious for being embroiled in the Malaysian #1MDB scandal + more recently ...
10/ reported as charged by the Swiss A.G. with Money Laundering citywire.ch/news/criminal-…. Dolfin made extensive use of the FCA’s “regulatory catflap”(A.R.’s), most being Chinese/Russian emigre run, perhaps unsurprising bearing in mind Dolfin’s “Golden Visa” activities. What ...
11/ wasn’t reported though however, was the alleged link between Dolfin + a big player in the international “Golden Visa” world, the FCA authorised ‘Kylin Prime Group’(Huawen Foundation) independent.ie/business/irish…. It’s going to be very interesting to see how things play out.
12/12 Meanwhile coming very soon we’re going to get down&dirty in the murky world at the “subprime end” of the “Golden Visa” world, again of course with FCA made men/women wetting their beaks, this time with a whole different level of associates(“bottom feeders”) + “activities”.

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