Facebook sued for $240 million for fraudulent ads on the platform

On Thursday, March 21, 2024, Swedish legal representative Lars Olofsson filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook Sweden AB at the Stockholm District Court. Olofsson represents 514 victims who have been deceived by ads published on Facebook in a cannabis ponzi scheme called Juicy Fields, which was initially and most successfully active between April 1 2020 and July 11, 2022. “With this lawsuit, I am demanding that Facebook take responsibility for the fact that fraudulent ads appeared on the platform and further that they were not removed when Facebook users (and my clients) reported them as fraudulent ads to the…

Juicy Fields South African Media Adventures

The Juicy Fields scam was never just limited to Europe. Indeed, from the beginning, the scam looked to South Africa in particular, for everything from cultivation plantations to new leadership. In the last several months, this situation has become even stranger as people associated with the scam continue to work there, or make claims that they do, which have even now roped in local and established journalists. The Juicy Fields Paid Press Effort The Juicy Fields Dao is not going away, but rather continuing to generate false press and media. As of mid January, 2024, the scam has continued to…

Possible kidnapping in the Juicyfields scam

Link to video: https://youtu.be/FN9XSANlu_Y In the video in which Mr. Kekshin appears, he gives no reason whatsoeveras to why he is making the statements he has made and why he has somehowchanged his mind. There is no logic why Mr Kekshin should not have givenany reason whatsoever as to why he is now making the statements he ismaking. The police in Berlin have for several days interviewed Mr. Kekshin indetail and also verified what Mr. Kekshin had told him and passed on alarge amount of evidence that could only come from Mr. Kekshin himself.The Special Witness Protection Unit has also…

European crossborder investigation into moneylaundering behind Juicyfields fraud

https://utena.policija.lrv.lt/lt/naujienos/kanapiu-investiciju-schema-nuskandino-milijonus-euru During the investigation of a large-scale financial crime, in which the criminals used attractive investments in medical cannabis and in which the victims from different European countries, including citizens of Lithuania, participated, a coordination meeting was held at EUROJUST.On October 25 of this year, at the invitation of Vice President Margarita Šniutytė-Daugėlienė, the representative of Lithuania in the European Union institution that coordinates the activities of legal institutions of member states in the field of international and organized crime (Eurojust), Deputy Chief of the Chief Police Commissariat of Utena County Vaidotas Žilys, Chief of the Economic Crimes Investigation Department…

Top German Cannabis Lawyer Admits to Working for Juicy Fields

According to his own admission, Kai Friedrich Niermann, a German lawyer specializing in the cannabis industry with his own shingle at KFN+, worked directly with the Juicy Fields scam. We have been asserting this for well over a year since our involvement in the Juicy Fields case, and against a raft of industry rumour and scorn that starts with “but there is no document.” As of June 6, just several weeks before the last ICBC conference in Berlin, Friedrich Niermann issued his own statement. We are highlighting it here and commenting on the same. Business With the Company According to…

The prosecution of Mark Zuckerberg has now reached the Supreme Court in Sweden 

CEO of META Platforms Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, is charged in Sweden with aiding and abetting aggravated fraud. If convicted, Zuckerberg could face up to 8 years in prison.   META has its largest server facility in northern Sweden, where more than 1.3 billion Facebook users are connected. Attorney at Law Lars J. Olofsson represents about 1,500 crime victims, from 58 countries, in one of modern times’ largest investment frauds, Juicy Fields, where about 125,000 people worldwide have lost more than 3 billion Euros. Most of the marketing of the scam has taken place on Facebook and Instagram with paid ads…

Public letter to The Global Investigative Journalism Conference

Dear Investigative Journalists, We are writing to you because you are attending the global investigative journalism conference. By way of introduction, I am the lead plaintiff in a series of private prosecutions and class actions due to a massive ponzi scheme in the global cannabis industry called Juicy Fields. The fraud itself was huge – kind of like the Wirecard of cannabis. Investors were lured mostly via online means, including direct, paid advertorial pitches on social media like Facebook, but also via cannabis conferences, and both the mainstream and cannabis focussed media. We were told that we could make up to…