Turkish authorities have tracked round $160 million throughout digital units seized from Andreas Szakacs.
The primary particulars since Szakacs’ arrest on July tenth have been reported by Turkish media.
Szakacks (proper), who was hiding in Turkey as “Emre Avci”, denies OmegaPro collapsed in late 2022.
As reported by Timur Soykan of Birgun on August twenty first, Szakacs claims OmegaPro
was not established for fraud. The corporate went bankrupt round September or October 2022.
We suffered the most important loss. We coated the losses of many victims till we went bankrupt.
The truth is OmegaPro was a Ponzi scheme from inception in late 2018. OmegaPro sufferer losses are reported to run into the billions, most of which stays unaccounted for.
Explaining what he was doing in Turkey, why he modified his identify and what he did for a residing, Szakacs instructed Turkish authorities;
Throughout his interrogation, [Szakacs] was requested, “Is there anybody you’ve escaped and hid from by altering your actual identify and surname?”
[Szakacs] stated, “No, there’s not. I modified it as a result of it was my authorized proper.”
[Szakacs] stated that he works in finance and advertising and his month-to-month earnings is $100,000.
He defined that he not too long ago acquired citizenship on account of his development work. However he didn’t bear in mind the locations he made development investments.
A raid on Szakacs’ 4-story luxurious villa noticed authorities seize
32 chilly wallets containing cryptocurrencies and password storage units.
On a pc that may very well be opened, quite a few OmegaPro paperwork and data of very giant quantities of cash actions have been discovered.
This folder additionally contained data of pockets addresses belonging to quite a few cryptocurrencies. It was additionally seen that there was details about crypto and pockets numbers on quite a few whiteboards within the villas.
To this point Szakacs is reported to be non-cooperational. He has not offered authorities with passwords to seized electrical units, together with cryptocurrency wallets.
Authorities raided a second villa, rented within the identify of Swedish nationwide Stefan Andreas.
Andreas is reported to be an confederate of Szakacs and stays at giant. BehindMLM is unfamiliar with the identify.
Andreas’ recognized OmegaPro co-founder accomplices, Michael Shannon Sims and Dilawar Singh, stays at giant.
Szakacs is believed to nonetheless be held in Maltepe jail. The total scope of the worldwide OmegaPro investigation has but to be made public.