Juicy Fields Suspect To Be Extradited from Estonia to Spain

A Russian national being held in Estonia separate criminal charges will be extradited to Spain to testify to the investigating court to discuss his involvement in the fraud. In a sign that the investigation and prosecution of individuals involved in the Juicy Fields scam is well underway, the Spanish court has now issued another extradition order. This appears to be the third one after the extradition and arrest of several members of the scam from other jurisdictions to Spain this year. The latest such extradition just occurred last month when Sergei Berezin, the alleged mastermind of the fraud, was extradited…

9 Arrests in Juicy Fields Case Made Across Europe

As Europol and the Berlin Prosecutor’s office are reporting, a massive, cross border investigation into the Juicy Fields scam over the past two years resulted in a major police operation on Thursday April 11, involving over 400 police officers in 11 countries, over thirty search warrants and ending with the arrests of 9 so-far unnamed individuals directly involved with the fraud. The announcement comes almost four years to the day after the Juicy Fields Ponzi scheme first launched its website in Berlin. The British National Crime Agency also announced, in a clearly coordinated press outreach, that they had arrested a “senior staff member” of the scam in the…

Facebook sued for SEK240 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…