As retail investor union COBIN claims we are pleased, to inform about following developments within the last weeks:

• The Austrian police finished their investigations against the “DaVinci”-group.
• On Feb 24th, in Vienna a trial starts against the main suspects in the case. The suspicion is fraud.
• COBIN claims will follow the court hearings and will report via newsletter about the case and the result of the hearings.
• Regarding the missing BTC: The attorney Dr. Haslinger has advice for BTC-investors: Research and cooperation with experts and private detectives have shown that even after the Bitcoin has been transferred and divided, it is still possible to trace it back to the original owner. This procedure is time-consuming and involves high costs. In any case, all injured parties are advised to join the criminal proceedings as a private party. In this way, expensive civil proceedings can possibly be avoided and injured parties can quickly obtain a legally valid title, which also makes it possible to assert claims in the future. For this reason, it is important that injured parties contact the victims' representatives in good time to assert untrue claims in court at a reasonable price.
• It is rather beneficial for every victim of this case of obvious fraud, to assert rights in the criminal proceeding. If you did not have already officially joined the proceeding in the position of a victim via one of the lawyers, we recommend, to do that now (please send us an E-Mail). In Austrian criminal proceedings, there exists the possibility, that victims get compensation directly.

Sammelaktion „unseriöse Bitcoin-Modelle“

Due to the fact, that several victims of this obvious fraud are not German native speakers, we will also provide information in English. Find the Newsletter of this proceeding below. With the Click on the Button "Registrieren" you join the proceeding of COBIN claims (please use the Google-Translator to translate the form in the language you want). COBIN claims is a non-profit union, which initiates class action-like proceedings via lawyers in mass damage cases. You can join the proceeding for free to get information only or you tell us within the registration process, that you are interested in services of lawyers as described in the newsletter below.

Zuletzt gab es wiederholt Beschwerden von Anlegern, die berichteten, dass sich im Netz „Investmentclubs“ breit gemacht haben, die zum Teil mit auffallend hohen Gewinn-Versprechungen Investments in Bitcoins oder andere Krypto-Währungen anbieten.

Dr Haslinger und COBIN claims sammelt Betroffene und führt Basis-Recherchen durch, um als Verein hier Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen. Der Verein wird gemäß den gewonnenen Ergebnissen den Fall Anwälten oder der Kripo vorlegen bzw. Betroffene dabei unterstützen, hier schnell Kontakt zu finden und ihre Rechte durchzusetzen.

Es ist nicht auszuschließen, dass es hier zu Fällen gewerbsmäßigen Betrugs gekommen ist!

Wann sollten Sie an der Aktion teilnehmen?

Wenn Sie in ein derartiges Modell investiert haben und

1. die Befürchtung haben, dass Sie das Investierte nicht mehr zurück erhalten oder
2. sie bereits Investitionen nicht oder nur teilweise zurück erhalten haben, versprochene Gewinne nicht ausbezahlt wurden oder der Anbieter die Zahlungen komplett eingestellt hat. Wenn Sie in Österreich oder in einem anderen EU-Land ansässig sind.

Wenn Sie wissen, dass der Investment-Anbieter in Österreich seinen Sitz hat, die maßgeblichen Aktivitäten von Österreich ausgingen oder einer der handelnden Personen sich in Österreich aufhält.

In einem Fall ist etwa bekannt, dass sich Geschädigte über mehrere Länder in der EU verteilt befinden. In diesem Fall um einen offenbar von Ostösterreich aus operierenden „Investment-Club“ mit dem Namen eines sehr bekannten italienischen Malers hat sich Beiratsmitglied Rechtsanwalt Dr. Wolfgang Haslinger gemeinsam mit Cobin Claims bereit erklärt, Geschädigte in einem etwaigen Strafverfahren zu vergünstigten Konditionen zu vertreten. Sollten Sie eine rechtliche Vertretung wüschen, können Sie auch das mit Ihrer Registrierung bekannt geben.

Für aus dem Ausland stammende Geschädigte ist es laut Auskunft der Anwälte im Regelfall zunächst NICHT notwendig, extra nach Wien anzureisen: Die Erledigung der Anwälte erfolge Internet-basiert, so die Anwälte.

As the attorneys said, for foreign victims of obvious bitcoin-fraud it is in the most cases NOT necessary to travel to Austria. You can participate in the proceeding of COBIN claims via internet, the lawyers told the union, that they can handle their cases without having victims coming to Vienna. Should there be hearings at courts in the future, there should be a way, that most of the investors not have to come to Viennna.

NEWSLETTER - 2021

Dear participants of the proceeding „bitcoin fraud”

Topic: general information - police investigations

Hinweis: Da zahlreiche Teilnehmer ua aus Slowenien und Ungarn stammen, werden die folgenden Informationen auf Englisch erteilt.

We as a consumer- and small investors union are happy to inform you, that we have made progress in the bitcoin case “DaVinci”. This Week, our Lawyers - and also member of our union - Mag. Severin Hammer and Dr. Wolfgang Haslinger received – after a delay due to limited capacities at the public prosecutor’s office related to COVID 19 – the court documents. The criminal investigations conducted by the Vienna criminal police under the supervision of the public prosecutor. The proceedings are directed against Mr. Koller and other unknown suspects.

As a non profit association we offered the police full cooperation in the interest of the victims, who joined the COBIN campaign related to “bit coin fraud/DaVinci. Due to your support and determination to follow up your claims, the police is now in the position to have a clear picture that there is a purported damage exceeding several million Euros.

We also facilitated the intervention of two law firms and negotiated a lump sum fee offered by attorney Dr. Wolfgang Haslinger. The work of the law firms will include the legal representation in the criminal case, which is the first step that you – hopefully – get back the money/bitcoins, you invested. It is intended to file for the seizure of 600 bitocin which were purportedly owned by Mr. Koller.

We recommend to all participants, to make use of this offer and it has proven helpful, to have the legal representation of a lawyer sooner or later in such a case. Many participants already did their “check-in” at the law firms, if you did not and are interested in please send us an E-Mail.

A detailed information on the criminal investigations against Mr. Koller and other suspects will be offered to those participants, who are clients of the law firms based on the fact, that those participants legally joined as a victim the criminal proceeding. A publication or disclosure to others could constitute a violation of the criminal procedure act. In Austria, is not allowed to spread information out of official proceedings to people, who are officially not entitled to get this information. Therefore, information will be given only by attorneys to their clients.