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Cyprus Golden Passport Scheme

EU Commission takes action against Cyprus and Malta’s malicious Golden Passports Schemes

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EU passports are highly prized as they give their owners the right to travel, live, and work freely in all 27 members of the union. Unfortunately, some countries such as Cyprus and Malta sell citizenships and thus EU passports as part of investment programs for the sole benefit of these countries. Most recently, Al Jazeera has revealed that Cyprus is also offering its “Golden Passport” scheme to convicted criminals and money launderers. Now the EU Commission takes action to terminate this malicious approach.

Lessons from BitMEX Case – Arrests, warrants, and bribing regulators with coconuts

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The U.S. Prosecutors charge the BitMex founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, Samuel Reed along with the senior manager Gregory Dwyer with (a) violating the Bank Secrecy Act and (b) conspiring to violate the Bank Secrecy Act, by willfully failing to establish, implement, and maintain an anti-money laundering (“AML”) program at the crypto exchange or BitMEX. The charges each carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Austrian FMA warns against PumaTS scam broker Blackstone500

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The Austrian FMA warns against Blackstone500 (www.blackstone500.com). It’s about time for law enforcement agencies in various EU jurisdictions to take action. In any case, the Leverate Financial Services Ltd which is regulated in Cyprus by CySEC should be approached to identify the beneficial owners and individuals behind PumaTS. The latter is a white label broker platform provider as well as a partner and client of Leverate and operates a vast scam broker network.

EU License Passporting – Spanish CNMV allegedly plans actions to stop malicious practices

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According to a report by Gerald Segal of FX News Group (FNG), the Spanish regulator CNMV is planning tough measures against regulated brokers to protect Spanish customers. Specifically, these are mainly CySEC regulated brokers who operate in Spain through the EU Passporting License. The CNMV measures are designed to prohibit the common illegal practices of many regulated brokers and their respective boiler rooms.

CySEC Scam Tourism – Leverate and PumaTS Network

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For many years, the CySEC-regulated Leverate Financial Services Ltd has been operating an infrastructure and trading network used by dozens of scam brands, in addition to its own regulated broker brands. Leverate works together with PumaTS and provides its technology, infrastructure, and trading services to scam brokers such as CapitalFX. FinTelegram has carefully reviewed documentation that supports this allegation beyond any reasonable doubt.

Spanish Watchdog warns against DBFX scam broker of Cyprus Belight Capital Group

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The Spanish financial market supervisory authority CNMV this week issued an investor warning against the unauthorized and thus illegally operating Forex broker DBFX Limited (www.dbfxtrades.com). According to information on the website, the company is registered in Vanuatu and is a subsidiary of the CySEC-registered investment company Belight Capital Group Ltd. The company’s license has been suspended in April 2020.

The end of an era – R.I.P. Rodeler and 24option

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On June 1, 2020, the FCA suspended some investment companies regulated by CySEC for their unfair sales practices. These firms allegedly used unauthorized celebrity endorsements on social media as part of their marketing. One of these investment firms was Rodeler Ltd and its brand 24option. Just a few hours later, CySEC also temporarily suspended Rodeler Ltd and ordered them to take necessary actions in order to comply with regulatory provisions within one month. R.I.P Rodeler and 24option.