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Federal Court Orders International Enterprise to Pay Over $451 Million for
Global Binary Options Fraud (2025/1/29)

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced the U.S. District

Court for Northern District of Illinois issued an order of default judgment against five

offshore entities and three individuals, finding them liable for fraud and other

violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and CFTC regulations in connection with

a global retail binary options fraud that victimized U.S. residents. The defendants

executed their unlawful scheme through internet websites using fictitious trade names

such as BigOption, BinaryBook, and BinaryOnline.

The following foreign entities and Israeli citizens were found liable for, and

enjoined from, fraud and other violations:

 Yukom Communications Ltd., incorporated in Israel

 Linkopia Mauritius Ltd., incorporated in Mauritius

 Wirestech Limited d/b/a BigOption, incorporated in the Marshall Islands

 WSB Investments Ltd. d/b/a BinaryBook, incorporated in Anguilla, the United

Kingdom, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Gibraltar

 Zolarex Ltd. d/b/a BinaryOnline, incorporated in the Marshall Islands

 Yossi Herzog

 Lee Elbaz

 Shalom Peretz

The order finds the defendants engaged in fraud and other violations and orders

them to pay, jointly and severally, $112.9 million in restitution and a $338.7 million

civil monetary penalty. The order also permanently enjoins them from engaging in

conduct that violates the CEA, as charged, and permanently bans them from

registering with the CFTC and from trading in any CFTC-regulated markets.

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