Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #cryptocrap
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1/ #CryptoCrap - CEO (Michael Stollery
aka Michael Stollaire) of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc (#TBIS)/EHI Internetwork & Systems Mgmt Inc (#EHI) sentenced to 4.25 yrs for the $21m #TitaniumBlockchain (#BAR) crypto #ICO #fraud (justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-tit…).
aka Michael Stollaire) of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc (#TBIS)/EHI Internetwork & Systems Mgmt Inc (#EHI) sentenced to 4.25 yrs for the $21m #TitaniumBlockchain (#BAR) crypto #ICO #fraud (justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-tit…).
2/ According to court documents, from 2017 Michael Stollery, touted #TBIS & the unregistered #TBIS crypto ICO (purportedly a decentralised enterprise infrastructure services platform, monetised by a native crypto token: #BAR). Investors were lured through a series of … 
3/ false & misleading statements including fake client testimonials + false claims that he (#EHI) had business relationships with the Federal Reserve & dozens of prominent companies to create the false appearance of legitimacy. ‘Team Titanium’ had apparently “over 2 centuries …
1/ #CryptoCrap - An infamous Canadian offshore #OnlineGambling tycoon (Calvin Ayre - #Bodog), #Bitcoin’s self styled inventor (Craig White), two Lords & a £10bn crypto lawsuit over #BitcoinSV. In 2018 the FT wrote ‘Bitcoin birthday boy is an absurd star of a serious industry. …
2/ The new face of cryptocurrencies is none other than offshore #OnlineGambling kingpin Calvin Ayre.’ Back in 2018 it was ‘Forking hell’ in the crypto-crappery as rival crypto-nerd clans, fought it out, handbags at dawn, in the #BitcoinCash ‘hard fork war’.
3/3 On one side (#BitcoinSV: BSV) the self styled ‘inventor of #Bitcoin’ (Craig Wright) and on the other (#BitcoinCash: BCH) ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ (Roger Ver). BitcoinSV lost & is now targeting offshore crypto exchanges #Binance, #Bittylicious, #Kraken and #Shapeshift.
#CryptoCrap - 1/ Portugal’s biggest banks are shutting down banking facilities for crypto exchanges, operating in what’s become a crypto ‘Wild West’, driven by Portugal’s(until 3 months ago) tax free status for crypto & ‘few questions asked’ use in property/other major purchases.
2/ (euronews.com/next/2022/05/1…). It’s rumoured enormous volumes of crypto of Ukrainian/Russian origin have passed through Portuguese crypto ops & it’s banking system. Portugal’s former ‘tax free’ crypto-crappery & lax #MoneyLaundering rules have attracted in particular …
3/ satellite Ukrainian crypto, support, & software ops - some with a dubious pedigree. Even crypto aficionados from neighboring Spain, which shares a similar climate, started crossing the border into Portugal after their government last year made it mandatory for …
@ArmitageJim @premnsikka 1/ While @thefca slumbered, their FCA made men/women wet their beaks in the notorious dark world of “entrepreneurial” aka “Golden Visa’s”. In 2018 the UK suspended “Golden Visa’s over endemic #MoneyLaundering concerns independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n… AND ...
2/ transparency.org.uk/sites/default/…. The FCA’s made men/women aren’t fussy, their target demographic at the top end usually Chinese “big crocs” & FSU “mini-me oligarchs”. This week @TheFCA woke up from its slumber + stopped #DolfinFinancial (UK) Ltd from carrying out regulated ...
3/ activities(fxnewsgroup.com/forex-news/reg… AND fca.org.uk/news/news-stor…) citing “serious concerns over the way Dolfin operated it’s business, including Tier1 Visa ops & financial crime controls”. The FCA was very quiet though about the seemingly all consuming Russian #CryptoCrap ..
@retheauditors @premnsikka 1/ While @TheFCA sleeps at the wheel, the FATF(Financial Action Task Force) published y/day ‘#MoneyLaundering + Terrorist Financing Red Flag Indicators Associated with Virtual Assets’ fatf-gafi.org/media/fatf/doc… . The secretive networks that operate ..
2/ both inside and outside of the FCA’s pitifully small porous (A.R.’s) regulatory perimeter traditionally used (to money launder) UK property, fake offshore transactions, payday loan ops, fake businesses, “disappearing gold” which morphed through money transfer ops ...
3/3 (e.g. NCA case in the “Ding Dong” Deal) + in to the secretive networks & dirty world of #cryptocrap, #binaryoptions & Forex ops with fake web stores, payment cards and FCA authorised emoney/payment institution money laundromats. We’ll be hearing more about that soon.
1/ @retheauditors @premnsikka @alexralph The curious case of the Grosvenor Motley Crew’s Baldock’s & Bothers Beal. **Part of what would have followed has been removed due to unfinished U.K. criminal court cases.** Back in the 2000’s (before New Labour’s “A-Day” wild west) ..
2/ John Russell-Murphy had a different name + a “different game”(next curious case). Benjamin Beal tells us in 2008 he joined “Intelligent Investment”, a murky unregulated SIPPshitting op hawking the usual off plan property & land “schemes”. Looking at Intelligent Investment’s
3/ website back in 2010 we see the notorious Ames Clan’s Harlequin Property “scheme” along with an Australian wheat Farm Land “scheme”(The notorious Renwick Haddow ran an infamous Australian wheat farm land scam “Agri Firma” [Capital Alternatives] with..
