Turkish authorities have tracked round $160 million throughout digital gadgets 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 largest loss. We lined the losses of many victims till we went bankrupt.
The fact 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 title and what he did for a residing, Szakacs instructed Turkish authorities;
Throughout his interrogation, [Szakacs] was requested, “Is there anybody you might have escaped and hid from by altering your actual title and surname?”
[Szakacs] stated, “No, there may be 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 revenue is $100,000.
He defined that he not too long ago acquired citizenship resulting from his building work. However he didn’t bear in mind the locations he made building investments.
A raid on Szakacs’ 4-story luxurious villa noticed authorities seize
32 chilly wallets containing cryptocurrencies and password storage gadgets.
On a pc that may very well be opened, quite a few OmegaPro paperwork and information of very massive quantities of cash actions have been discovered.
This folder additionally contained information 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 date Szakacs is reported to be non-cooperational. He has not offered authorities with passwords to seized electrical gadgets, together with cryptocurrency wallets.
Authorities raided a second villa, rented within the title of Swedish nationwide Stefan Andreas.
Andreas is reported to be an confederate of Szakacs and stays at massive. BehindMLM is unfamiliar with the title.
Andreas’ identified OmegaPro co-founder accomplices, Michael Shannon Sims and Dilawar Singh, stays at massive.
Szakacs is believed to nonetheless be held in Maltepe jail. The complete scope of the worldwide OmegaPro investigation has but to be made public.
