Roman Kazimierz Ziemian has been stripped of his Cyprus passport.
An October twenty fourth report from In Cyprus claims the passport revocation is tied to Ziemian’s FutureNet Ponzi scamming.
Cyprus has revoked Roman Kazimierz Ziemian’s citizenship one month after his arrest in Montenegro over allegations that he defrauded customers of roughly $21 million by way of the FutureNet digital foreign money buying and selling platform.
If you happen to’re questioning how Ziemian (proper), a Polish nationwide, secured a Cyprus passport;
Ziemian, alongside along with his spouse and son, obtained Cypriot citizenship by way of the “golden passports” programme by a Cupboard resolution on August 28, 2019.
The household later modified their surname from Ziemian to Hortman.
Cyprus’ golden passports scheme noticed anybody keen to pump 2.5 to 25 million euros into the nation awarded a passport. The since-axed scheme is extensively related to fraud.
Warsaw Interpol has given Cypriot authorities permission to make use of the warrant data in citizenship revocation proceedings.
Along with Cyprus, Ziemian and his FutureNet partner-in-crime Stephan Morgenstern additionally bought Gambian diplomatic passports in 2019.
Roman Ziemian was arrested for a second time in Montenegro again in August. It’s understood each Poland and South Korea have requested extradition.
Ziemian is dealing with felony expenses associated to FutureNet in each international locations.
Stephan Morgenstern was additionally arrested for a second time in Albania in September 2023. As of March 2024, Morgenstern was set to be extradited to South Korea.
There have been no additional public updates since then.
In associated information, public relations scammers proceed to attempt to bury reporting on Ziemian’s and Morgenstern’s felony exercise.
The most recent incidents are two makes an attempt to bribe Molly White (proper), an impartial journalist who runs Web3 Is Going Simply Nice.
On October 18, an individual who didn’t establish themselves however claimed to run a “repute administration firm” that cleans up “purchasers picture over the web,” requested White to take away her X submit about FutureNet and Ziemian, “which is about my shopper.”
The particular person then provided White a bribe of $200 to take away the corresponding submit from Web3 Is Going Simply Nice, in line with a duplicate of the trade that White shared with TechCrunch.
White declined the supply, arguing that there have been no errors in her posts. The unnamed particular person agreed, in line with the response seen by TechCrunch, however nonetheless upped the value to $500.
A number of days later, somebody figuring out himself as a lawyer named Michael Woods emailed White. Citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which governs U.S. copyright regulation, Woods alleged that White’s submit infringed copyright as a result of, they claimed, “this web page content material has been copied from our web site,” in line with the e-mail trade that White additionally shared with TechCrunch.
The positioning in query was a backdated article, copying White’s authentic work, printed an AI-generated spam web site.
White informed the purported lawyer that, “there are penalties for submitting false DMCA claims.” Woods responded by providing White $100 to “completely take away” the identical weblog submit about Ziemian.
White’s expertise mirrors that of my very own. Following repeated makes an attempt to suppress BehindMLM’s reporting, we added Ziemian to BehindMLM’s DMCA Wall of Disgrace in August 2024.
A Google search of Roman Ziemian and Stephan Morgenstern reveals PR waffle spam continues to be being printed on varied web sites as of November 2024.