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Aug 7, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ £5.1M High Court claim by ‘Hong Kong-based’ #PSP #UnicornPayment Ltd alleges false risk report filed/funds withheld by it’s #Mastercard payment acquirer #Worldpay (UK). @theFCA auth #Emoney op #WorldPay allege the same old Londonski #PSP story.
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2/ At the heart of the dispute according to #WorldPay is an ‘online cosmetics op’ (+ associated ops) #24Beauty (reportedly signed up via a reseller to ‘#UnicornPayment’), whose transactions #WorldPay reportedly had ‘concerns about the "genuineness" of’.
3/ Furthermore, #WorldPay reportedly claimed concerns of ‘reputational risk’ from alleged associations that #UnicornPayment's money-laundering reporting officer had with two businesses that had received ‘adverse media coverage’.
4/ The spiderweb of ‘#UnicornPayment’ (according to #Crunchbase, founded in 2020 + homed in Romania) allegedly leads back to Romanian op (with an Italian flavour) ‘#UnicornPayment SRL’. Coincidently, a ‘#24beauty’ online cosmetics op is also no stranger to Romania.
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5/ #UnicornPayment’s Director of Global Sales & Partnerships is allegedly UK national ‘Abdul Aziz Ali’ - allegedly formerly Director of European Sales & Partnerships at now infamous imploded UK #Emoney op #AlliedWallet (the subject of a future expose - ). https://t.co/Yisd9Wq18Xnypost.com/2018/08/02/sha…
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6/ #UnicornPayment’s Relationship & Risk Manager is allegedly UK national ‘Jemma Ross’ - allegedly formerly Relationship & Risk Manager at the infamous UK #Emoney op #QPayEurope (it’s purported honcho alleged to be formerly associated with #AlliedWallet). Image
7/ #UnicornPayment’s former CEO was allegedly Lithuanian national ‘Tomas Snitka’. Coincidentally a Lithuanian op ‘Unicorn Payment UAB’ was incorporated in 2020 - its ‘responsible manager’ (CEO), listed then as UK National ‘Stephen Buechner’ - allegedly a #Barclays man & … Image
8/ included stints as Chief Risk Officer or consultant at UK/UK passported #Emoney ops: #Finolita (allegedly linked to #Wirecard); #PXPFinancial, #IntraPay, #Paysafe (#Skrill) - the subjects of future exposes.
9/9 All roads invariably lead to Londonski, it’s blind eyed regulator (@theFCA) & it’s notorious ‘#Emoney scene’. Image

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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…Image
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@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…

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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.Image
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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…Image
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 … Image
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’. Image
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Dec 15, 2023
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…
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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 … Image
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@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…
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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 …
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@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ #FormationsHouse - far more than just another of Londonski’s notorious ‘formation factories’ with allegedly fistfuls of trans-national fraudsters/#MoneyLaunderers as clients: ‘liquidator fails to find company boss amid unexplained bank transactions’. Image
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