Jim Belushi: Juicy Fields Celebrity Influencer and Facilitator Remains Unprosecuted

Juicyfields promotion of ICBC and Jim Belushi Despite the international busts in the middle of April, many of the scam’s facilitators remain untouched, including celebrity Jim Belushi. It is overdue that they are prosecuted. Jim Belushi is a well-known figure in the cannabis industry and beyond. He is a celebrity actor and well known in the American cannabis industry. However, his first entre into the European biz, via the Juicy Fields sponsored ICBC cannabis business conference, and allowing the scam to use his image, puts him in the paid facilitator category. It is overdue that he too, is put on…

Juicy Fields Arrests: The Silence of The Cannapress

In the last week since an international police operation began arresting suspects, the mainstream press has had a field day – yet the cannapress has largely stayed quiet. Why? For the last week, the international news media has had a field day reporting on the Juicy Fields case – in most cases for the first time. In marked contrast, however, the cannapress, with one notable exception in Europe anyway, has stayed remarkably silent. This is far from surprising. Generally, the cannabis media is not investigative, curious, and generally reliant on sponsors who do not want investors, or anyone else, to…

Juicy Fields Arrests Just The Beginning

International arrests in multiple countries of at this point 11 people (that we know of) is just the tip of the iceberg. And we have the inside scoop. Last week, the first arrests in the Juicy Fields scam made global news. Which then of course led to the massive speculation, particularly in the cannapress and social media, but also the German media, about who it was who actually got busted. While the Cannabis Cowboys over at DW, who also quoted the Russian Whistleblower (this time anonymously after outing him in the Russian press), wanted to revel in their inside knowledge,…

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…

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…