OmegaPro crypto platform managers arrested in Istanbul after allegedly making off with $4B in profit

Robert Velghe, a Dutch executive at OmegaPro, was arrested Tuesday, the reports said, after Andreas Szakacs, a Swede who was among the firm’s founders, was arrested in July.

Two managers of a now-defunct crypto trading platform have been arrested in Istanbul, Turkish media reported on Friday.

Robert Velghe, a Dutch executive at OmegaPro, was arrested on Tuesday, the reports said, following the arrest in July of Andreas Szakacs, a Swede who was among the firm’s founders.

The managers of OmegaPro, which was created in 2018 and registered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, made off with $4 billion in profit from the platform, which promised investors extremely high profits, according to NTV television and the pro-government daily Sabah.

When asked for comment, neither Turkish government officials nor the justice authorities responded.

Sources told Agence France-Presse in June that French prosecutors were looking into OmegaPro.

A complaint was filed in France at the end of February on behalf of “nearly 2,000 victims” for fraud, breach of trust, and deceptive commercial practices by an organized gang, according to the French association Capital.

Investors were promised returns “of up to 300 percent over a maximum period of 16 months” by OmegaPro, according to the association’s lawyers.

The business began to experience difficulties at the conclusion of 2022, which resulted in a freeze on its assets.

Its website vanished in July 2023 before investors could recoup their funds. They were instead given the option to put their money into a new endeavor called Go Global.

According to attorneys, French clients lost “several hundred millions of euros.”

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