The first trial in the so-called Veltyo Cybercrime Scheme is currently taking place in Saarbruecken, Germany. The defendants are two Kosovans, Betim Tasholli and Azem Spahiu, and the Syrian Mohamad Shaker. Tasholli was the boiler room manager in Pristina, Shaker was responsible for the boiler room in Prague and Spahiu was responsible for the coordination of affiliate marketing around the scam brands Option888, ZoomTrader, TradoVest, or XMarkets. Affiliate marketing was carried out by Miriam Wewermann and Benjamin Wewermann.
The Case
The former mastermind of the Veltyco Cybercrime Scheme, Uwe Lenhoff, who died in prison in July 2020, in one of his statements named Miriam Wewermann (LinkedIn) and Benjamin Wewermann (LinkedIn) as the person responsible for the affiliate marketing of the Option888 binary options scam from 2016. At the time, she was working for the Israeli company The Nation Traffic Ltd. The company’s website has since disappeared. Her brother Benjamin Wewermann, who runs the online marketing company Flipsmedia Limited in Cyprus, also worked for affiliate marketing around the scams. Miriam Wewermann received a fixed monthly payment of €7,500 for her work.
We curious to hear the statements of the defendants in the German trial in this context. The fact is that these affiliate marketing systems acquired the majority of the victims of Option888 and the other scams. Whether the conduct of Miriam Wewermann and Benjamin Wewermann is criminally relevant for the German prosecutors will be determined in the course of the trials.
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