Following their arrest in 2016, AlphaPool and Bonofa ringleaders Detlef Tilgenkamp, Thomas Kulla, Gernot Fuhr and Martin Böhm have obtained jail sentenced.
Sadly as a consequence of how monetary fraud is reported on in Germany, we don’t have particular particulars on every Bonofa scammer’s sentence.
Courtesy of a January seventeenth report from SR, what we do know is;
The masterminds behind Alphapool and Bonofa have been sentenced to between six and 7 years in jail in 2018. They arrive from Saarland.
In 2021, one other defendant was sentenced to 12 months probation for prison promoting.
I imagine the sentences have been handed down in relation to AlphaPool, a shell firm intertwined with Bonofa.
SR reviews;
The precise Bonofa proceedings have been discontinued in 2020 as a result of the anticipated punishment would now not be of appreciable significance given the decision that had already been handed, in accordance with the Saarbrücken public prosecutor’s workplace.
If I’m understanding appropriately, the AlphaPool sentencing was deemed ample punishment. Thus the Bonofa prison fees have been dropped.
German authorities additionally didn’t apprehend some AlphaPool and Bonofa scammers, ensuing of their circumstances being dropped too.
Final 12 months, the final circumstances in opposition to a number of defendants, a few of whom have been nonetheless absconding, have been discontinued.
When precisely the circumstances have been closed I’m unsure by SR reviews, as of January 2024, that the AlphaPool and Bonofa prison circumstances in Germany are actually deemed concluded.
Bonofa was an MLM Ponzi scheme tied to the failed Cube7 social community. German authorities peg Bonofa losses at “greater than 50 million euros”.
Following the arrest of Bonofa CEO Martin Böhm (proper) and his accomplices in Could 2016, just a few months later what was left of Bonofa was bought to the infamous OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
Whereas AlphaPool and Bonofa have been run from Germany, a big proportion of its “tens of hundreds” of victims have been from poor nations within the Carribbean and Africa.