2024-09-07 21:46:37
Two managers of a former cryptoasset investment foundation accused of fraud were arrested in early September and in July in Istanbul, Turkish media reported on Friday.
A Dutch manager from the platform OmegaPro, Robert Velghe, was arrested on Tuesday in this city. Andreas Szakacs, a Swede among the founders of this company, was also arrested in July in Istanbul, these media reported.
According to the private television channel NTV and the government daily Sabah, OmegaPro managers, created in 2018 and registered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, who returned very high profits to investors, made four billion dollars in profits .
Contacted by AFP, neither the authorities nor the Turkish justice system, which last year prosecuted the founders of the cryptocurrency exchange platform Thodex, who fled Turkey with the assets of his clients have not yet made any comments on these orders.
A study opens in France
The French judiciary has opened an investigation against the directors of the OmegaPro platform, AFP wrote in early June. An indictment was filed in France at the end of February concerning “almost 2,000 victims” for fraud, breach of trust and fraudulent business practices by an organized gang, according to the French Capital Association, which brought together the accusers. .
According to the group’s lawyers, OmegaPro has promised investors a return “of up to 300% over a maximum period of 16 months”.
The company began to build from the end of 2022, leading to the freezing of its funds. Its website disappeared in July 2023, without users being able to recover their tree. The latter were offered to repay their money to a new network, Go Global.
The lawyers cited damages of “several hundreds of euros” for French customers.
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