
They extorted 76 million euros with the trust of unsuspecting investors. In late 2022, the Zentralstelle Cybercrime Bayern (ZCB) filed charges against five suspected cyber fraudsters.
According to BILD information, the leader of the gang is Israeli Nadav G, 34 years old. Together with his accomplice Yuri D., 34, and another 62-year-old Israeli, he is said to have entered the billion-dollar business of fraudulent investment platforms in 2015.
The gang allegedly sold fraudulent investment products through call centers in Israel, Georgia, Moldova and Armenia.
ZCB: "From these call centers, bona fide customers were persuaded to invest sometimes large sums of money in a large number of fraudulent platforms (so-called "brands") relying on a profitable investment opportunity ("cyber trading")". ZCB was able to prove that the gang had stolen around 76 million euros.
According to investigators, they should have done so through the following online investment platforms:
- TradeSolid and SolidCFD (with deposits from defrauded customers worldwide of at least 3.8 million euros)
- IntegraOption and FXIntegra (at least EUR 113,880)
- TechOption (at least EUR 175,000)
- GetFinancial under the domains getfinancial.com and get-financial.com (at least 16 million euros)
- ProCapitalMarkets (at least 7.1 million euros)
- GainFinTech (at least 2.7 million euros)
- MyCoinBanking (at least 15.1 million euros)
- AcceptTrade (at least 3.0 million euros)
- ProfitsTrade (at least 25.2 million euros)
- CoinsBanking (at least 3.4 million euros)
Nadav G. and his men accuse ZCB of commercial fraud and gangs in 8 cases.
He was arrested on a train journey in Slovenia in 2021, the gang was organized as a large company.
Under his leadership, "marketing departments" in Tbilisi, Georgia and Kiev, Ukraine are said to have created promotional websites - and fake Facebook profiles and review forums "to ensure positive reviews of the group's investment platforms there". according to Thomas Goger of ZCB.
A 30-year-old Russian woman will also appear in court. She worked for the group's IT development team.
Its task was to enable payment service providers to access the customer management system, to procure and manage phone numbers and e-mail addresses for call center employees and to further develop the management system of the client. She was arrested in Georgia and extradited to Germany in May 2022.