Following their arrest in 2016, AlphaPool and Bonofa ringleaders Detlef Tilgenkamp, Thomas Kulla, Gernot Fuhr and Martin Böhm have obtained jail sentenced.
Sadly because of how monetary fraud is reported on in Germany, we don’t have particular particulars on every Bonofa scammer’s sentence.
Courtesy of a January seventeenth report from SR, what we do know is;
The masterminds behind Alphapool and Bonofa had been sentenced to between six and 7 years in jail in 2018. They arrive from Saarland.
In 2021, one other defendant was sentenced to 12 months probation for felony promoting.
I consider the sentences had been handed down in relation to AlphaPool, a shell firm intertwined with Bonofa.
SR stories;
The precise Bonofa proceedings had been discontinued in 2020 as a result of the anticipated punishment would now not be of appreciable significance given the decision that had already been handed, in line with the Saarbrücken public prosecutor’s workplace.
If I’m understanding appropriately, the AlphaPool sentencing was deemed adequate punishment. Thus the Bonofa felony costs had been dropped.
German authorities additionally didn’t apprehend some AlphaPool and Bonofa scammers, ensuing of their circumstances being dropped too.
Final yr, the final circumstances towards a number of defendants, a few of whom had been nonetheless absconding, had been discontinued.
When precisely the circumstances had been closed I’m undecided by SR stories, as of January 2024, that the AlphaPool and Bonofa felony circumstances in Germany are actually deemed concluded.
Bonofa was an MLM Ponzi scheme tied to the failed Cube7 social community. German authorities peg Bonofa losses at “greater than 50 million euros”.
Following the arrest of Bonofa CEO Martin Böhm (proper) and his accomplices in Could 2016, just a few months later what was left of Bonofa was bought to the infamous OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
Whereas AlphaPool and Bonofa had been run from Germany, a big share of its “tens of 1000’s” of victims had been from poor international locations within the Carribbean and Africa.