A neighborhood chief of the GIG-OS Ponzi scheme has been arrested in Argentina.
Solely recognized as “FMV”, the scammer was arrested throughout a collection of raids final Thursday.
As reported by Rosario3 on December seventh;
The detainee is anticipated to be taken to an indictment listening to by the financial crimes prosecutor Mariano Ríos Artacho.
GIG-OS is the third reboot of EmGoldex, a gold themed Ponzi scheme believed to be run by Russian scammers.
Following World Intergold, the second collapsed reboot of EmGoldex, GIG-OS noticed the Ponzi transition to cryptocurrency.
Heading up GIG-OS is Dmitry Aksyonov.
Apart from him being Russian, nothing is thought about Aksyonov. Whereas GIG-OS is probably going run by Russians, Aksyonov himself is a major Boris CEO candidate.
The arrest of an Argentinian GIG-OS promoter coincides with the resurrection of the Ponzi scheme throughout South America.
World Intergold , an organization that promised extraordinary earnings and, in keeping with the complainants, postponed the rendering of funds to traders, unleashing a flood of complaints since at the very least March 2022.
SimilarWeb tracked ~74,000 visits to GIG-OS’ web site in November 2023, down from ~160,000 in September.
Prime sources of GIG-OS web site site visitors are Argentina (51%, down 30% month on month), Brazil (21%), Venezuela (6%), Uruguay (5%) and the Netherlands (5%).
The Central Financial institution of Uruguay issued GIG-OS and World InterGold securities fraud warnings earlier this 12 months in February.
Different associated regulatory motion, relationship again to Emgoldex, contains: