The hunt for Britain’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ who owes $134 million
Classic Ponzi Cheat
The CWM only operates from late 2013 to the beginning of 2015, but at that time it seized hundreds of victims. Most of them have retreated from mouth to mouth, those who make people cut back – a classic ponzi trick.
Before everything was solved, potential investors were often told that they put money on “risk -free” transactions in foreign exchange (FX) markets for an investment of at least £ 100,000.
In fact, it was a scam supported by the illusion of healing on top.
“It was like the film of the 1980s Millions of Brewster. [Constantinou] He was spending money to create this impression, creating an individual’s legend and cult, he says, a source with close information about the old city boss.
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His lies were so convinced that I became one of hundreds of people. Many believed that Constantinou could personally guarantee the money because of the so -called leverage inherited from his father of the fashion king of the fashion king killed in an unresolved case.
Aristos Constantinou, who runs a series of shops in London, was killed by masked men at his home on Bishops Boulevard in Hampstead, Hampstead, known as the turn of the billionaire in 1985.
Like Chelsea Football Club, large CWM sponsorship agreements helped the company to be legitimized.
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Everything seemed calm, organized and on the board of directors. Hospitality was flowing, potential investors gave front -row seats to big activities.
Constantinou showed the royal of the princess around the 2015 London Boat Show, sponsored by CWM only months before CWM’s offices.
“It was a smart scam, no doubt,” he says. “Everything is designed to attract wool on our eyes.”
The personnel were told that CWM’s investment strategy was very “long and boring için for their understanding. The word “ponzi gerek should not be used in the office, but a personnel allegedly saying in office cuisine.
Red flags
The atmosphere in the office was said to be intimidating and variable, the workers underestimated by Constantinou and Alcohol.
In 2016, he was imprisoned for a year because he attacked two women. A court heard how a woman pushed a woman into the icy glass and continued to get angry and kiss her will.
While he was in a bail for the attack, after a business meeting, he attacked another woman during the drinks and threw a piece of hot Wasabi paste in his mouth.
At the same time CWM began to dissolve. The CWM’s Square Mile Office was published by the police after a clue and business was closed in 2015.
I was one of the lucky ones. Initially, after he saw his money, he saw a 5 percent return, but he began to suspect Constantinou’s fairy tale and made his money out before.
“It was too many red flags that produce this amount of money from the edge gaps – if it were so good, it would be discovered by a risk protection fund,” he remembers.
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Hundreds of people lost their lifetime savings.
A person close to some victims and their families says: “There was a retired truck driver who put all his money and lost a lot of pension funds and a group of Gurkhas who lost all Sebbang.”
Constantinou first disappeared in June 2023 when false representations were found guilty of fraud with fraudulent trade and money laundering in Southwark Crown Court. He was sentenced by a jury in his absence and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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Prosecutors estimated that Constantinou won £ 97 million from the deception and collected a Range Rover, Porsche and CWM branded motorcycles during their investigations. This month, a confiscation order was given for £ 64 million.
“This was an emotionless deception that targets the members of the people. Many people lost their money due to their greed in this false investment plan and wrong promises.”
Antonis Hadjicostis and Georgios Arnaoutakis, using the nicknames, were arrested in Bulgaria in 2023 while trying to enter Türkiye with false documents, but was later released. In addition to the death certificate in Mexico, the trace cooled.
As the UK’s “Wolf of Wall Street” hunt continues, those affected by Constantinou’s tricks continue to be uncomfortable with the experience.
“I have been the target of another scam since then,” I confess. “Now I’m making my own investments – I will not get anyone’s advice from anywhere. There is a lot of fraud there.”
Some names in this article have been changed
Telegraph, London
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