Estonia

Class Action Complaint alleging a Ponzi scheme that "resulted in the loss of $2.3 billion" in Avis Mullins v. Novatech, Cynthia Petion, Eddy Petion, Ricardo Roy, Jean Martin Zizi, Travis Bieberitz, Novatech Ltd., of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Novatech Advisors LLC, Nova Pay LLC, NovaTrading Oü, of Estonia; Smart Bit Inc., Deborah Brasil, Frantz Ciceron, Ciceron Frantz & Associates Inc., Paul J. DeRenzo, John Garofano, Bob St. Louis, James Corbett, and John Does 1-500 at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Application by CI Investments Inc., acting in its capacity as manager and trustee for and on behalf of First Asset Morningstar International Value Index ETF, of Canada; Lighthouse Investment Partners LLC, of the USA; The Church of England Pensions Board, as Trustee of The Church Administrators Pension Fund, of England; and Stichting Bedrijfstakpensioenfonds voor de Media PNO, of the Netherlands, to take discovery from Deutsche Bank AG and Deutsche Bank Trust Company of the Americas "for use in litigation against Danske Bank A/S in Copenhagen City Court and the Eastern High Court in Denmark" that are "based on a series of money laundering activities over a nine-year period from 2007 through 2015 by Danske’s Estonian branch", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Ex Tempore Judgment granting the plaintiffs' petition for a winding-up order in LedgerScore International Pte Ltd., of Singapore; LS Litigation Holdings LLC, of Wyoming, USA, and Earn Guild Pte Ltd., of Singapore, collectively described in the winding up petition as “retail investors who utilized an online cryptocurrency trading platform operated by the Company called “Freeway”, and who invested in Freeway’s Supercharger program” v. AuBit International at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Application by QIC Ltd., described as "a governmental entity wholly owned by the Australian State of Queensland", to take discovery from Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch and Deutsche Bank Trust Company of the Americas for use in legal proceedings in Denmark "against Danske Bank A/S" by "over 300 claimants" who allegedly suffered investment losses of "around $1 billion" due to "a series of money laundering activities over a nine-year period from 2007 through 2015 by Danske’s Estonian branch, which has been referred to as the largest money laundering scandal in world history", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Class Action Complaint "by Plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and the thousands of similarly situated persons whose cryptocurrency account trading credentials were acquired and/or accessed by unauthorized persons in a data breach (or data breaches) that 3Commas admitted on December 28, 2022" in Lorne Tritt, Bruce Johnson, and Joseph Fishman v. 3Commas Technologies OÜ, described as an Estonia company that "claims to be the largest crypto trading bot platform", at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Complaint alleging "Plaintiffs were victimized by cybercriminals who intentionally and unlawfully utilized a fake cryptocurrency trading website called 'Blammo'", causing them to lose their "entire retirement portfolio, all of their cash, and ... incur at least $250,000.00 in debts" in Oleg Koziar, and Rimma Koziar, described as "retirees of Ukrainian extraction in their 60s" v. Blammo Ltd., Alamas Group Europe OÜ, of Estonia; John Doe and Jane Doe at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

First Amended Class Action Complaint alleging that "As a result of Defendants' negligent, fraudulent, and unlawful conduct, countless Atomic Wallet user wallets around the world were hacked by North Korean hackers, resulting in the loss of over $100,000,000.00 USD worth of cryptocurrency related assets on or about June 3, 2023" in Robert Meany, Graham Dickinson, John Briscoe, Todd Gammon, Michael Fisk, Paul Unruh, Jovan Silva Delgado, Gregory Loberg, Vincent D'Amelio, Carter Ruess, Daniel Werter, Jeffrey Rogers, Erik Nelson, Landon Grubb, Sam Breazeale, Brenda Abbley, Dereck Ernest, Eric Jensen, Douglas Edwards, Dustin Falk, and Daniel Hayes v. Atomic Protocol Systems OÜ, d.b.a. Atomic Wallet, of Estonia; Evercode Infinite, d.b.a. Evercode Lab, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Konstantin Gladyshev, a.k.a. Konstantin Gladych; Ilia Brusov, a.k.a. Ilya Berezovsky, a.k.a. Ilya Bere, and Pavel Sokolov, a.k.a. Paul Sokolov, described as citizens and residents of Russia, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Cloudflare Inc. regarding "accounts associated with www.brokerchooser.com and www.tradevision-group.net" - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Poland - for a criminal investigation into "unknown suspect(s) for fraud offenses", including a person "who introduced himself as Jan Kobi".

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from ConsenSys Software Inc. - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Estonia - for use in a criminal investigation into an "unknown perpetrator(s)" for the alleged theft of crypto from a citizen of Estonia.

Class Action Complaint alleging "negligent and unlawful conduct in connection with its cryptocurrency exchange platform, Atomic Wallet ... resulting in the loss of over $100,000,000.00 (100 million) USD worth of cryptocurrency related assets" in Robert Meany and Graham Dickinson v. Atomic Wallet, described as a crypto platform headquartered in Estonia, and Konstantin Gladych, described as a citizen of Estonia, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Superseding Indictment alleging citizens of Russia, Greece, and the USA participated in a global procurement and money laundering scheme on behalf of the Russian government in USA v. Yevgeniy Grinin, Aleksey Ippolitov, Boris Livshits, Svetlana Skvortsova, Vadim Konoshchenok, Nikolaos Bogonikolos, Alexey Brayman, and Vadim Yermolenko at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

USA's Motion to Compel BlockFi to Comply with Seizure Warrants in USA v. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both citizens of Estonia, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Complaint in John Cress v. Nexo Financial LLC, Nexo Financial Services Ltd., of England; Nexo Services OU, of Estonia; Nexo AG, of Switzerland; Nexo Capital Inc., of the Cayman Islands, and Antoni Trenchev at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

List of Creditors of 'FTX Trading Ltd. et al' crypto group, filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Class Action Complaint in Charles Freeman, Tigran Melkonyan, Ari Shofet, Shawn Mall, Benjamin Ferris, Bryan Chapman, Nandan Arora, Shafiq Rajani, Vijay Christopher, Marc Ashby, Vincent van Buskirk, Lawrence Manickam, and Edmundo Pena v. 3Commas Technologies OÜ, of Estonia, described as "a provider of automatic Crypto trading software", at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Estonia by Andres Hermet, as the Foreign Representative of Envestio SI Oü, described as an allegedly fraudulently-operated "holder and administrator of a crowdfunding platform which purportedly offered potential investors web-based intermediation of loans for businesses and real estate projects", filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Consent to Judgment of $2 billion in USA v. Danske Bank A/S at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Criminal Information alleging conspiracy to commit bank fraud involving Danske Bank's branch in Estonia in USA v. Danske Bank A/S, described as "the largest bank in Denmark", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint and Proposed Judgment alleging "Danske, directly and through its branch in Estonia, provided banking services to suspicious customers despite knowing there was a high degree of risk that such customers were potentially engaged in money laundering" in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Danske Bank A/S, described as "a Danish multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Criminal Indictment alleging crypto-related investment fraud and money laundering by citizens of Belarus and Estonia in USA v. Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, described as citizens and residents of Estonia, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Complaint in Datachain Labs LLC v. Roger Gabriel Benites Quijano, a.k.a. Roger Benites; Bitinka Limited, of Hong Kong; Inka Ventures Ltd., of Guam; Chasqui Tech AB, of Sweden; Blockzy OU, Blockzy Technologies Srl, of Estonia; Blockzy Technologies SL, of Estonia, and Roger M. Benites at the Superior Court of Connecticut, Stamford/Norwalk.

Public Notice by Malta's Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit that it has imposed a fine of €653,637 on Ferratum Bank Plc for regulatory breaches.

Chapter 11 Petition by Voyager Digital Holdings Inc., of New York; Voyager Digital LLC, of New Jersey, and Voyager Digital Ltd., of Canada, which are part of a group comprising entities in Canada, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Estonia, France, United Kingdom, and USA that operates "a cryptocurrency brokerage" that is "facing a short-term 'run on the bank' due to the downturn in the cryptocurrency industry generally and the default of a significant loan made to a third party", which was identified as British Virgin Islands-domiciled, Singapore-based "cryptocurrency hedge fund" Three Arrows Capital Ltd., filed at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

A court in Estonia is seeking evidence from a crypto wallet provider in the United States for a fraud investigation into bankrupt crowdfunding platform Envestio SI OÜ, which allegedly stole investors' funds before being declared bankrupt on June 3rd, 2020, and its former CEO, Anton Kaletin.

Ex Parte application on behalf of the Harju County Court of Tallinn, Estonia to take discovery from Payward Inc., described as "a virtual currency wallet service provider", for use in bankruptcy proceedings against Envestio SI OÜ and involving suspected fraud, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Complaint alleging fraud in G Esports Holding GmbH, d.b.a., G2 Esports, of Germany, described as "one of the world's leading esports' organizations, with a high-profile roster of esports teams and content creators" v. BDVL OÜ, of Estonia, d.b.a. Bondly Sports, described as "a company utilizing blockchain technologies for the development of non-fungible tokens", at the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from JPMorgan Chase Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Estonia - for a criminal investigation into "an unknown subject for fraud".

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Citizens Bank NA and Citibank NA - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Estonia - for a criminal investigation into "Estonian citizens Priit Porila, Aivar Riis, Dmitri Fokin, Australian citizen Manjit Singh Hansra, Ukrainian citizen Inna Svyrdovska and others, Estonian Companies OU Feature, Glomus Corp. – Estonia Branch, Har-Lex LLC – Estonia Branch, Command Trade Agency, Inc. – Estonia Branch, and U.S. companies Har-Lex, LLC, Inversio Partners LLC, BPB Holdings LLC, Command Trade Agency, INC, and Ironsale LLC, and others for money laundering".

Public Notice by the Malta Financial Services Authority that it has imposed a fine of €3,750 on Ferratum Bank Plc for failure "to submit the Auditors' Management Letter within the regulatory deadline".

British national Jonathan Ellis has filed a complaint in England against cryptocurrency firms domiciled in the Cayman Islands, Estonia, Lithuania, Seychelles, Switzerland, and United Kingdom, including cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

Class Action Complaint in Junhan Jeong v. Nexo Financial LLC, Nexo Financial Services Ltd., of England; Nexo Services OÜ, of Estonia; Nexo AG, of Switzerland, and Nexo Capital Inc., of the Cayman Islands, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Emergency Cease and Desist Order by the Texas State Securities Board against Mind Capital, a.k.a. Mind Capital OÜ, a.k.a. Mind Capital Tech SL; Gonzalo Garcia Pelayo, Oscar Garcia Pelayo, Rubén Arcas, Manuel Arniz, Cristina Kelly Lopez, Alejandro Mejía, all of Spain and Estonia, and Craig Knitzel, of Texas, regarding a suspected investment fraud involving a "crypto-fiat arbitrage trading program".

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Citibank NA, Equity Bank, and JPMorgan Chase Bank - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Georgia - for a criminal investigation into Garik Revazian and Oppenheimer Financial LLC for suspected fraud and money laundering involving corporate and individual alleged victims "in the United States, Latvia, United Kingdom, Russia, Poland, Estonia and Hong Kong".

The cryptocurrency industry had its own 'Red Wedding' at federal court in Manhattan yesterday when 11 class action complaints alleging the sale of unregistered securities were filed against 42 defendants in the BVI, Canada, Cayman Islands, China, Estonia, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Malta, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, USA, and Vietnam.

Class Action Complaint alleging the sale of unregistered securities involving an online exchange known as Bibox in Alexander Clifford v. Bibox Group Holdings Ltd., described as a British Virgin Islands-domiciled company based in New York; Bibox Technology Ltd., domiciled in Estonia; Bibox Technology Oü, domiciled in Estonia; Wanlin 'Aries' Wang, of Long Island, NY; Ji 'Kevin' Ma, of China, and Jeffrey Lei, of Singapore, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint to extradite Aleksandr Rotko from the USA to Estonia to face allegations of embezzlement.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding a criminal investigation into a classified advertising website known as Backpage in USA v. Funds at AMRO Bank NV and Plains Capital Bank associated with Ad Tech BV, Scheef & Stone, LLP, James Larkin, Michael Lacey, Scott Spear, and John Brunst at the U. S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Cayman Islands-based trading firm Zimtra Asset Management SEZC is being sued by an investment fund managed by a banned securities broker in the United States that claims to be owed $280,000.

Chapter 15 Petition for Recognition of a Foreign Main Proceeding in Canada by Ernst & Young, as the Foreign Representative of Mundo Media Ltd., 2538853 Ontario Ltd., M Zone Marketing Inc., and AppThis Holdings, Inc., at the U. S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Complaint in Florer Systems Group LLC, of Estonia v. World Trade Securities (Cayman) Limited, a Cayman Islands firm with an address in Montreal, Canada, and Simon Librati, of Miami, at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Application by Hermitage Capital Management Limited to conduct discovery from Bank of America NA, Bank of China, Bank of New York Mellon, BNP Paribas USA, Citibank NA, Commerzbank AG, Credit Agricole CIB, Deutsche Bank Trust Co Americas, JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, Mashreqbank Psc., Standard Chartered Bank, UBS AG, and Wells Fargo Bank NA for use in criminal proceedings brought by Russia on December 11th, 2018 against Hermitage, its Founder & CEO, Bill Browder; Ivan Cherkasov, and others for alleged tax fraud, filing of a false bankruptcy, and embezzlement, filed at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Letter from attorney Tatjana Dobolina requesting that OffshoreAlert remove a reference to her client, Dmitri Sepa, in an article by OffshoreAlert in 2008 that was based on a request for judicial assistance that was made in the USA by Estonia concerning an investigation into suspected import/export fraud and which was filed at federal court in Delaware.

Fixed Date Claim Form in Indrek Kuivallik and OU Spring Capital v. Registrar of Corporate Affairs and Financial Secretary regarding Ansager Global Limited at the British Virgin Islands High Court.

Forfeiture Complaint against funds in the names of Moonbigtwo, Glendown Holdings, Exellit Sales LLP, Exgold Import LLP, Deltaway Systems LP, Burgenland AG Inc., Nokletto Industries Limited, Max Crown S.A., Avikom Ltd., Torir Inter LP, Dingseng HK Co. Ltd., Romantick Style Ltd., Ideals Solutions Group SA, Privaled Construction LP, and Corwald Transit LP in USA v. Funds at Eurobank Cyprus Ltd., Hellenic Bank, ABLV Bank AS, Trasta Komercbanka, Meridian Trade Bank, Baltikum Bank AS, Reitumu Banka, AB BND Bankas, Postova Bank AS, CIB Bank ZRT, Danske Bank, HSBC Bank, MKB Bank ZRT, and Norvik Banka JSC at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Indictment in USA v. Kim Dotcom, Megaupload Limited, Vestor Limited, Finn Batato, Julius Bencko, Sven Echternach, Mathias Ortmann, Andrus Nomm, and Bram Van Der Kolk at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Application by Otkritie International Investment Management Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Otkritie Securities Limited, of England and Wales; and Otkritie Financial Corporation JSC, of Russia, to issue subpoenas to Deutsche Bank AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. for the production of documents for use in a civil complaint filed by Otkritie International Investment Management Limited against Georgy Urumov and Denning Capital Limited at the High Court in the United Kingdom.

Estonia is seeking evidence in Atlanta as part of a criminal investigation into alleged fraud.Details are contained in an application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Estonia -

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence for a criminal investigation in Estonia into fraud involving Sergei Tsurikov.

Estonia is seeking evidence from helicopter manufacturer Sikorski Aircraft Corp. and one of its subsidiaries, Helicopter Support Inc., as part of a criminal investigation into a helicopter crash in 2005 that killed 24 people. Details are contained in an application

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and one of its subsidiaries, Helicopter Support Inc., for a criminal investigation in Estonia into a helicopter crash in 2005 that killed 24 people.