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In 2016, the mayor of Belgrade told a court that friends from abroad paid his children’s pricey school fees.
But @KRIKrs found they were paid by three offshore companies — including one he owned.
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Siniša Mali, the former mayor of Belgrade and Serbia’s current finance minister, sent his children to an elite school where a year’s tuition cost far more than his official income. He claimed that the fees were paid by “friends” from abroad. Reporters have found that the money flowed to the school through offs...
She thought she was investing — but the account was actually controlled by a 74-year-old man from Nottingham. And her money all ended up in the hands of scammers.
“Just come and take my blood and sell it, because that is all I have left in my body now. You have taken everything off me,” she said to the scammers after she had lost all her savings.
One of them, a British tradesman we’ll call “Mark,” was led to believe he was making investments in cryptocurrency and clean energy. A call-center scammer convinced him to open a new digital Chase account and send £7000.
To get help moving the money, the call center opened up the chat app Telegram and messaged a service provider called “Bankio,” which provided bank account info to scammers on demand.
Leaked documents reveal how scam call centers drew on a secret industry of service providers that used shell companies, proxy account holders, and sham paperwork to receive funds from their victims through accounts at major commercial banks, or turn it into cryptocurrency.