1/ @retheauditors @premnsikka @ArmitageJim The curious case of “who’s really the daddy ?”. @FinTelegram asked “is the #FinMax binary option/FX/CFD #scam network really operated by a former high-ranking Ukrainian police officer + his wife?” ( AND ...
2/ fintelegram.com/another-warnin…). It’s Belfast footprints entwined with other notorious blacklisted crypto/binary option/FX/CFD ops + far more. It’s interesting to note that the #FinMax group’s “#RUSVPN” VPN op targets #KODI (P2P media centre app, primarily for illegal viewing ...
3/ of movies) influencer deals. KODI movies often have injected “Englishski” ads for notorious blacklisted online crypto/binary option/FX/CFD ops. The appearance of Belfast addressed UK SPV “Morris Processing Ltd” is fascinating, it being the initial purported owner & ...
4/ operator of the #Finmax binary option op(+ far more). It’s director until 2017 - Victor Guerrero Guzman, also a director of the same Belfast addressed UK SPV White Square Trading Ltd (aka the notorious blacklisted FX/CFD op UNIVERSE MARKETS). White Square Trading ...
5/ Ltd’s purported Mexican national honcho Victor Guerrero Guzman’s business bud (+ fellow director) is non other than Ever Cohen, an Italian Citizen (born in Tripoli) + Israeli resident, allegedly linked to notorious blacklisted international crypto/binary option/FX/CFD ops ...
6/ allegedly utilising UK SPV’s eg Touchtrades Ltd (TOUCHTRADES), CFD-1000 Ltd (CFD1000), Vortex Assets Ltd (victims allege VORTEX ASSETS), Top Innovative Strategies Ltd (YOUTRADEFX), Spring Empire Solutions Ltd (SUNBIRDFX) + others. Victims allege that the director’s ...
7/ striking off of UK SPV Vortex Assets Ltd was opposed by Far East victims of the “VORTEX ASSETS” FX/CFD op. Both Ever Cohen’s service address & the 100% shareholder of UK SPV Vixindex Ltd (sole director Ever Cohen) are noteworthy, a Whois lookup of SUNBIRDFX’s ...
8/ Website “in the day” shows both this same Israeli service address & a YOUTRADEFX domain as contacts. The 100% shareholder of Vixindex Ltd (sole director Ever Cohen) was “Blue Seal Limited”, a name shared by the purported owner of notorious blacklisted international FX/CFD ...
9/ ops including VIX500, MIB700, CAC400 (it’s interesting to note the names of Ever Cohen’s UK SPV’s). In YouTradeFX’s user agreements the owner is stated as “Top Media Ltd” (Anguilla) which is the same as the 100% shareholder of UK SPV Top innovative Strategies Ltd ...
10/ (directors - Ever Cohen/Victor Guzman/Luis Perez Torner). In 2014 it was reported that SUNBIRDFX had “acquired a batch of brands” from YOUTRADEFX + that the Australian ops of YOUTRADEFX were “acquired” by CFD op AvaTrade Ltd. AvaTrade ltd had close links with ...
11/ LSE listed online gambling/trading giant #Playtech’s TradeFX Ltd (aka TradeFXL aka markets.com) which had an option to acquire AvaTrade Ltd (exercised + acquired for $105m in 2015). Victims of the UK #BassettANDGold minibond scandal ...
12/ (standard.co.uk/business/admin…) know to their cost the FCA authorised fingerprints of TradeFX Ltd’s right hand girl (2012-15) - Israeli lawyer & former @theFCA “enforcer” Ms Benzaquen (). The “VORTEX ASSETS” FX/CFD op (+ many other) website variously ...
13/ stated the purported owner/operator was Estonian SPV Blonde Bear OU & Black Parrot Ltd (Marshall Islands). While @theFCA slept at the wheel in 2018 the Polish cops raided a major binary option/FX/CFD op boiler room op in Warsaw (#AmplioInvestments), it’s alleged run by an ..
14/ Israeli with a false Guatemalan passport. This boiler room op it’s reported peddled the notorious CFD1000, MIB700, VORTEX ASSETS etc binary option/FX/CFD scams. @Fintelegram reported the “#Zoobroker” scam network” (fintelegram.com/the-transactwo…) as containing both an admin ...
15/ framework - Blue Seal Ltd, Black Parrot Ltd, Blonde Bear OU etc and also the binary option/FX/CFD ops including VORTEX ASSETS, VIX500, CAC400, MIB700, TOUCHTRADES etc. Recalling the #Enron mega fraud’s honchos penchant for naming SPV’s after Starwars characters, we see ...
16/ a similar SPV naming OCD here, this time using a “zoo” of “coloured animals”. It’s interesting to note the nomenclature of Ever Cohen’s onshore UK SPV’s (run through a London addressed & UK SPV’d up Seychelles formation factory) eg UK SPV Transparent Chameleon Ltd ...
17/ It’s also interesting to note it’s 100% shareholder - Black Parrot Ltd ... small world. This Seychelles formation factory’s main face in the UK is UK SPV Northwestern Management Services Ltd, notorious for its involvement with many blacklisted international crypto/ ...
18/ binary option/FX/CFD ops including the #Zoobroker scam network. @FinTelegram reports that in the #DAOGroup scam network one of Northwestern Management Services Ltd’s nominee directors was allegedly a purported Seychelles national “Jonathan Clifford Bibi”. Longtime USA ...
19/ #Cybersecurity journalist @briankrebs in 2020 wrote about the mysterious purportedly Swiss resident “Tech Investor” John Bernard (with an English accent but with staff residing in the Ukraine!) targetting USA advisory firms/startups (krebsonsecurity.com/2020/09/due-di…). It was ...
20/ reported that the mysterious John Bernard’s digital footprints allegedly morphed in to a purported Seychelles national Jonathan Clifford Bibi, named in numerous Binary Option/FX/CFD/Crypto scams. @briankrebs later reported that the mysterious John Bernard was ...
21/ allegedly the notorious UK “on the run” fraudster with Ukraine connections - John Clifton Davies (krebsonsecurity.com/2020/09/who-is… AND krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10/promis… AND miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/confiscat…).
22/ Purported Mexican national Erica ALCIBAR RODRIGUEZ (Tel Aviv service address) was a director of a group of UK SPV’s incl. Joshua consulting Ltd. @Fintelegram report Joshua consulting Ltd as allegedly being part of the #JoshuaGroup scam network (fintelegram.com/austrian-regul…), ...
23/ it’s UK SPV’s allegedly linked to blacklisted crypto/binary option/FX/CFD ops (eg CAPITALMARKETBANC, SOLIDFXPRO, JANUS OPTIONS, KSF TRADE etc). Erica ALCIBAR RODRIGUEZ was also a director of GreenTree Holdings Ltd which as well as an interesting Tel Aviv service address ...
24/ has “interesting” PSC’s (Latvian, Israeli & “familiar” offshore SPV’s). At the SAME Tel Aviv service address is another purported Mexican national, one Alma Nallely ALCIBAR RODRIGUEZ who is a director of a group of UK SPV’s, at one of which (Whaletech Ltd) her fellow ...
25/ director is another purported Mexican national Luis Felipe Perez Torner who is one of a threesome with Ever Cohen & Victor Guzman at UK SPV Spring Empire Solutions Ltd (SUNBIRDFX) - #Zoobroker scam network .. a small world indeed. Lots of blacklisted crypto/binary option ...
26/ /FX/CFD ops are allegedly linked to these #JoshuaGroup UK SPV’s (eg GAINOPTION, 12TRADER, TRADEREU, TRADERX, STSCAPITAL, CMSTRADER along with “interesting” directors (eg Adrian Charalambous/Magomeds Atujevs - allegedly linked to blacklisted binary option/ ...
27/ crypto/FX/CFD ops eg IMPERIALOPTIONS & FCA blacklisted ops eg Frontex Group Ltd/Markets Index Ltd/Interactive Services Worldwide Ltd (TRADERX, TRADEX OPTIONS) etc. @Fintelegram allege a Georgian national Levan Asatiani as purportedly fronting the #JoshuaGroup, a Georgian ...
28/ national Levan Asatiani also purportedly controlled UK SPV Vortex capital Ltd (#JoshuaGroup - eg blacklisted AXECC crypto op). Vortex Capital Ltd’s officers Corporo Ltd & UK national Simon Curren appear (in addition with UK national Alan Curran) in a number of ...
29/ “interesting” UK SPV’s including the previously mentioned GreenTree Holdings Ltd. Corporo Ltd’s (aka London addressed formation factory Company Express (UK) Ltd) speciality is allegedly funnelling Israeli linked “ops” in to/out of the UK. Simon Curran/Corporo Ltd ...
30/ also appear as officers of UK SPV Chemmi Holdings Ltd (the notorious blacklisted BINARY TILT + other blacklisted binary option/crypto/FX/CFD ops eg MAXCFD - timesofisrael.com/israeli-binary… AND atozmarkets.com/news/osc-warni…). These blacklisted ops (along with others) it’s been ...
31/ alleged used the notorious #SpotOption “white label” binary options platform (timesofisrael.com/sec-charges-is…), which it’s alleged involved Israeli Leonid (Leon) Okun. Leon Okun is also allegedly linked with the #Proftit (a subsidiary of affiliate network #Affilomania ...
32/ - timesofisrael.com/in-latest-crac…) CRM platform allegedly used by crypto/binary option/FX/CFD ops, the #BoaElite binary option affiliate network platform (‘exclusively’ for spot option clients) & the UR Trade Fix Ltd CYSEC FX broker(TRADEO - atozmarkets.com/news/eur20000-…).
33/ #SpotOption was reported as controlled by Georgian born Israeli Malhas Pinhas Patarkazishvili (note UK SPV Spot Option UK Ltd AND timesofisrael.com/sec-charges-is… AND coingeek.com/questions-aris…). In 2020 @OCCRP published an expose on the #MiltonGroup, a notorious Ukraine centric ...
34/ Crypto/binary option/FX/CFD “fraud factory” with boiler room ops across CEE/FSU (occrp.org/en/fraud-facto… AND occrp.org/en/fraud-facto…). @OCCRP reported a whistleblower alleged #MiltonGroup’s honcho was Georgia born Israeli David Todua who its reported was a ...
35/ business partner of former Georgian defence minister + sometime Israeli resident Davit (aka David) Kezerashvili (transparency.ge/sites/default/…). It was reported that both David Todua & Davit Kezerashvili denied involvement in the Milton Group.
36/ @theFCA’s #Emoney scene, like the #FCA’s FX scene is a notorious cesspit of money laundering + fraud facilitation, it’s FCA made men/women operate unfettered + without fear, often as part of secretive networks that operate both inside + outside of the FCA’s pitifully ...
37 small regulatory perimeter. Unsurprisingly @Fintelegram alleges : 1. Emoney ops of the #TransactGroupWorld aka Paymentz.com (FCA auth. TransactWorld Ltd/agents) are linked to the #Zoobroker scam network (fintelegram.com/the-transactwo… AND fintelegram.com/european-finte…).
38/ 2. Emoney ops of the allegedly Israeli controlled Lithuanian GlobalNetInt UAB Group (FCA A.R. MoneyNetInt Ltd) are allegedly linked to the #JoshuaGroup (via Maxigrid Ltd - fintelegram.com/scam-broker-ro…), #Finmax, #WolfofSophia (fintelegram.com/payment-servic… AND timesofisrael.com/austrian-autho… ..
39/ AND AND balkaninsight.com/2020/10/19/eas…) etc scam networks. FCA authorised #Emoney op MoneyNetInt Ltd has been sanctioned by the Polish regulator for its alleged involvement with blacklisted crypto/binary option/FX/CFD boiler room ops in Poland.
40/ Back to Messrs Cohen/Guzman/Torner & possibly the longest lived of the notorious crypto/binary option/FX/CFD ops they were allegedly linked to - SUNBIRDFX (UK SPV Spring Empire Solutions Ltd). Dare we ponder the notorious world of Scottish LP’s ? ...
41/ (). Quickly scanning the Scottish LP cesspit we come across a “zoo” of “coloured animal” related Scottish LP’s (the handiwork of the notorious Scottish LP formation factory LAS International). Nestled within this “zoo” is ...
42/ “Jet Falcon LP”, its General Partner (GP) “Spring Strategies Ltd”. By coincidence the 100% shareholder of UK SPV Spring Empire Solutions Ltd (SUNBIRDFX) was a “Spring Strategies Ltd” ... spooky, but it gets spookier. A quick squizz in LAS International’s ...
43/ Scottish LP “nest” yields Yellow Butterfly LP, Cyan Elephant LP + Magnetic Horse LP which by complete coincidence have GP’s/LP’s which coincidentally have the same names as offshore entities in the #Zoobroker scam network +/or Ever Cohen linked SPV’s offshore shareholders.
44/ But it gets even spookier - all 4 of these Scottish LP’s all had only one other document filed (term changed document), the same document detail from the same ‘presenter’ for all 4 - purportedly a home based ‘accountant’ from Uxbridge, Mr Babu Chandarana.
45/ Up front + centre in many of these crypto/binary option/FX/CFD scam networks are ‘formation factories’, UK companies & @theFCA authorised #Emoney ops/banks. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism & Times of Israel describe UK & Israeli crypto/binary option/FX/CFD op ...
46/ victims desperate fight to get their money back (thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2016-0… AND timesofisrael.com/follow-the-mon…). The UK’s FCA has ignored thousands of crypto/binary option/FX/CFD scammed victims complaints + turned a blind eye to the nefarious activities of its FCA made ...
47/47 men/women that operate both inside + outside of its pitifully small regulatory perimeter in secretive networks - key issues highlighted in the recent scathing Dame Gloster #LCF minibond scandal enquiry. All of this continues/mutates, meanwhile @theFCA sleeps at the wheel.

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