The Juicyfields case and its many scandals

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…