The owners of the OmegaPro crypto company were trying to convince people to invest. They took photos with the Dubai sheikh and shared fake magazine covers. Private jets, ultra-luxury cars, yachts and ostentatious lifestyles were showcased. Crowded events were organized, expensive gifts such as luxury watches were distributed to those who brought new participants.
EMRE AVCI WAS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE FRAUD NETWORK
In fact, Emre Avcı was also involved in all these eye-catching tactics to conceal the global fraud! There were many wallet numbers written on the whiteboards in the villa where Avcı was caught…
HE WAS WORKING WITH WELL-KNOWN FACES OF THE FINANCE WORLD
According to the news of Timur Soykan from BirGün; the crypto and Forex scam that has surrounded the world like a spider web started in 2019. Swedish citizen Andreas Szakacs (Emre Avcı, as he took the name after becoming a Turkish citizen) was the CEO of a crypto company called OmegaPro. The owners of the company were well-known names in the crypto and finance worlds such as German national Dilawar Singh and American Mike Sims. The headquarters of OmegaPro, which was established in opaque countries such as Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, was in Dubai. They established representatives in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and Europe.
BEST SELLING PACKAGE: 300 PERCENT PROFIT PROMISE
The system worked like this: OmegaPro was shown as a Forex and cryptocurrency trading company operating on the internet. They simply told people: “Give us your money. We will trade with your money and pay you daily profits.” The company offered investment packages for this. These packages were sold for between $100 and $50,000. OmegaPro promised to develop an algorithm that analyzed international markets and that it would provide its investors with very high profits. There were also promises of great profits in Forex transactions, which were played with predictions about whether currencies or commodities would gain or lose value against each other. They said they would increase the investor’s money 10 times with leveraged transactions. In many of the packages sold by OmegaPro, there was a claim that it would provide a 300 percent profit in 16 months. They promised gifts and higher profit rates to those who brought new investors.
RONALDINHO, KAKA, CASILLAS TOOK THE FIELD IN THE TOURNAMENT
Szakacs (Emre Avcı) and his partners have woven their networks to reassure investors. They have organized a football tournament in Dubai and Panama called OmegaPro Legends Cup, where former footballers Ronaldinho, Kaka, Wesley Sneijder, John Terry, Iker Casillas took the field. These footballers became OmegaPro ambassadors. They also frequently used American and Indian movie stars in the events.
LUXURY WATCH FOR THOSE WHO BRING NEW PARTICIPANTS!
They held large and ostentatious congresses with names considered as the gurus of the business world in the most luxurious hotels in different parts of the world. They distributed luxury watches and expensive gifts to hundreds of people who brought new participants to crowded events.
They also sponsored automobile races under the name OmegaPro. In this way, they were developing their financial resources. The owners of the company were showing off their wealth with private jets, ultra-luxury cars, and yachts.
FAKE MAGAZINE COVERS, PHOTOS WITH DUBAI SHEIKH…
They copied magazines like Forbes and spread fake articles and covers praising OmegaPro.
They even held fake ceremonies as if they had received awards that didn’t actually exist. Close relations with the Dubai sheikh shared group photos.
3 MILLION PEOPLE FELL INTO THE NET IN 2.5 YEARS
They had representatives in many countries including Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, Hong Kong, Singapore, England, France, Belgium, Nigeria, Congo, India, South Korea. They convinced people to invest their money in OmegaPro. CEO Szakacs (Emre Avcı) was telling in his fancy meetings that they had reached 1.5 million investors and that they would grow even more. Those who saw that they were constantly making large amounts of money with the OmegaPro applications they downloaded to their phones brought in new investors. In 2.5 years, the number of investors reached 3 million.
PAYMENTS STOPPED, COMPANY CLOSED: $4 BILLION DOLLAR FRAUDS!
Allegedly; this company was actually a Ponzi scam. They were making payments to previous investors with the money from new investors and saving money for the scam. It was even claimed that the company’s capital was coins obtained in OneCoin, one of the world’s largest crypto scams in 2017. Ruja Ignatova, known as the Crypto Queen, made a $ 4 billion scam with OneCoin in 2017. In November 2022, OmegaPro stopped paying investors who wanted to withdraw their money. In July 2023, the company was completely closed. Allegedly; 3 million people around the world realized they were scammed. Szakacs (Emre Avcı), Dilawar Singh and Miki Simms disappeared. Allegedly; They made a $ 4 billion scam.
THEY HAVE SURVIVED ALL OVER THE WORLD
Investors around the world have filed complaints. In France alone, there are more than 1,500 complainants and a class action lawsuit has been filed. In Nigeria, victims started a petition on change.org and asked for help from Dubai, where the company is headquartered. They claim there are 10,000 victims in total. Tens of thousands of people were also scammed in Colombia. In addition to these countries, class action lawsuits have been filed against the company in many other countries, including Mexico, Congo, Portugal, England, and Myanmar.
Despite numerous lawsuits, Emre Avcı and his partners could not be found, they were thought to be in Dubai. However, the main actor was again from Turkey, Istanbul. Szakacs (Emre Avcı) was born in Sweden in 1988. His mother is Swedish and his father is of Turkish origin. Andreas Szakacs does not speak Turkish. After the OmegaPro scam, he quietly came to Istanbul and settled in the villas in Acarkent Site in Beykoz with his family.
REPORT FROM DUTCH VICTIM: FRAUDSTER IN BEYKOZ
On June 28, a person who wanted to remain anonymous reported the incident to the Istanbul Provincial Gendarmerie Command. The informant said, “The person who deceived many citizens with leveraged transactions on cryptocurrency exchanges with a so-called crypto application under the name OmegaPro is located in the Acarkent Site in Beykoz, Istanbul.” The gendarmerie, which investigated the OmegaPro victims before the operation, identified 18 complainants.
“THEY TOOK OUR 103 MILLION DOLLARS”
Ten days after the report, on July 8, Dutch citizen doctor Abdul Ghaffar Mohaghegh came to the gendarmerie and gave a statement. He listed the names of OmegaPro’s founders and gave the following summary statement:
“I invested $7 million in OmegaPro. 3 thousand people invested a total of $103 million. These 3 thousand people gave me a power of attorney. High returns were promised in return for this investment. These promises were supported by commercial activities in the cryptocurrency market, which were allegedly carried out by OmegaPro.”
THEY INVESTED 10 THOUSAND DOLLARS, IT INCREASED TO 40 THOUSAND DOLLARS
The gendarmerie identified 16 Turkish complainants from the ‘complaints’ website on the internet. These people living in Istanbul claimed that they were scammed after downloading the application called ‘Omega Invest’ (considered to be a side application of OmegaPro) to their phones. These people said that they downloaded the Omega Invest application to their phones under the guidance of people who introduced themselves as investment experts. All of their stories were similar. They first deposited small amounts of money and quickly earned 3 times the amount of money and withdrew the money. After depositing 10 thousand dollars, the money they saw in the application increased to 40 thousand dollars. When they wanted to withdraw this money, investment experts told them that they needed to do more. They sent more money to Omega Technology and Consulting and different company accounts and eventually all their balances in the application were zeroed. They could not reach the investment experts again.
CAUGHT IN VILLA! WHITEBOARDS WITH WALLET NUMBERS
On July 9, one day after taking the complainants’ statements, gendarmerie teams raided two separate villas in the Acarkent Site in Beykoz, Istanbul, and detained Avcı. There was no one in the villa rented in the name of Swedish citizen Stefan Andreas, who worked with him. Stefan Andreas could not be caught.
Despite being in a high-security complex, Avcı’s 4-story luxury villa was equipped with security cameras. During the search, 32 cold wallets containing cryptocurrencies and password storage devices were seized. On a computer that could be opened, numerous OmegaPro documents and records of very large amounts of money movements were found. This folder also contained records of wallet addresses belonging to numerous cryptocurrencies. It was also seen that there was information about crypto and wallet numbers on numerous whiteboards in the villas.
HE ANSWERED WHY HE CHANGED HIS NAME
During his interrogation, he was asked, “Is there anyone you have escaped and hid from by changing your real name and surname?” He said, “No, there is not. I changed it because it was my legal right.” Avcı, who did not accept the accusation that the company defrauded many people, said, “It was not established for fraud. The company went bankrupt around September or October 2022. We suffered the biggest loss. We covered the losses of many victims until we went bankrupt.”
$160 MILLION MOVEMENT IN 1 MONTH
As a result of the preliminary examination of Avcı’s digital assets, crypto account movements of $160 million were detected in 1 month. Avcı did not provide cold wallets and computer passwords. It is thought that the servers were managed from these computers.
LAWYERS: THERE WAS A RISK, THEY LOST
Avcı did not accept the accusations. He said that he works in finance and marketing and his monthly income is $100,000. He explained that he recently received citizenship because of his construction work. But he did not remember the places where he made construction investments.
Avcı’s lawyers explained that there was a risk of losing money on the Forex exchange and that the complainants were aware of this. A lawyer for the Dutch complainant, who said he was scammed out of $7 million, said: “His statements are unfounded. We will present them.” On July 10, the Beykoz Criminal Court of Peace arrested Avcı for the crime of “fraud by using information systems, banks or credit institutions as a tool.”