Media stories from the Netherlands and Belgium have confirmed the id of the arrested Nano Membership Ponzi scammer in Spain.
Citing the suspect as “Stijn V.”, a number of stories have confirmed Vanstraelen’s age and former skilled biking profession.
Writes Wielerflits from the Netherlands;
As a bicycle owner, he rode main classics resembling Omloop Het Volk and the E3 Prijs Harelbeke originally of this century, twenty years later he’s the primary suspect in one of many largest fraud circumstances ever in Belgium.
The 45-year-old Stijn V. from Sint-Truiden has been arrested in Spain, Het Laatste Nieuws stories . He’s suspected of fraud price 24 million euros.
From Niewssblad from Belgium;
V. as soon as rode alongside Tom Boonen as an expert bicycle owner, however was much less well-known. He needed to finish his profession prematurely after a severe fall. Afterwards, he modified tack and began organizing pyramid schemes, amongst different issues.
Now he has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and cash laundering. He dangers as much as 10 years in jail.
And as reported by GVA from Belgium;
Did former Limburg bicycle owner Stijn V. (45) defraud dozens of Flemish folks with empty discuss extreme income by investing in gold and (fictitious) crypto cash?
And did he funnel hundreds of thousands of euros by means of a tangle of accounts to put money into actual property within the Spanish Torrevieja?
He himself denies all the things throughout his interrogation.
Vanstraelen’s look in a photograph of his arrest in Spain made it tough to determine him.
Up till his arrest, right here’s how Vanstraelen introduced himself on-line:
Vanstraelen’s perp stroll picture reveals a podgy man with dyed hair transplants and smaller ears.
Between the stories listed here are some extra info about Vanstraelen’s arrest:
- Belgian authorities started investigating Vanstraelen and Nano Membership in 2018;
- an arrest warrant had been out on Vanstraelen “for years”;
- Vanstraelen is alleged to have personally stolen over ten million euros by means of Crypto 888 Membership and subsequent reboot Ponzis (together with Nano Membership); and
- following his launch by Spanish authorities, Vanstraelen travelled to Belgium and turned himself into police (word that is from Vanstraelen’s Belgian lawyer, Belgian authorities haven’t confirmed this)
Accomplices of Vanstraelen named by BehindMLM readers over time embody Pieter Van Devijver, Kris Lemmens, Kristof De Vlieger, Tim Vermeiren, François Colin, Patrick Vermeesch, Hendrik Hendrickx, George Van Wijk and Petter Forsberg.
Forsberg is a Norewegian lawyer, who’s alleged to have assisted Vanstraelen with laundering stolen Nano Membership investor funds by means of “an opaque tangle of accounts in Singapore [and] Hong Kong”.
No phrase on whether or not the Belgian Nano Membership investigation extends to Vanstraelen’s accomplices.
