Earlier right this moment a reader despatched in a tip suggesting Vortic United’s Jensen Robles was German nationwide Rene Schwarze.
At first I wasn’t satisfied. They seemed related nevertheless it was tough to make a name.
I left it there however ultimately curiosity acquired the higher of me and I started pulling at threads.
Because it stands I’m about 97% satisfied Jensen Robles is Rene Schwarze. I additionally consider I’ve uncovered a Russian organized crime syndicate.
We’ll get into who Rene Schwarze is and the Russians in a bit. First off, right here’s all of the supporting proof I used to be capable of put collectively.
For reference, right here is Vortic United’s Jensen Robles:
And right here is Rene Schwarze, circa 2016-2020:
Proper off the bat you’ll be able to see Schwarze resembles a youthful and fewer overweight Robles. The beard is in fact there, and Robles has had his tooth completed.
Resemblance although isn’t sufficient, we have to dig deeper.
Jensen Robles has some distinctive options. For starters considered one of Robles’ ears doesn’t have an earlobe – it simply tapers into his head at a triangular angle.
Robles’ eyebrows are additionally distinctive as they’re much thicker in the direction of the top of his nostril. They seem to vanish after a few half inch.
Robles’ smile can be distinctive. When Robles smiles, his cheek dimples on both facet of his nostril don’t align – one begins greater than the opposite and the opposite is wider and deeper on his face.
Now if that was all I had, I’d be about 75% assured Schwarze was Robles. And that’s not assured sufficient to place this text collectively.
So what else do now we have?
Robles’ FaceBook web page isn’t your typical stolen/hacked account affair. Though it’s extremely suspicious, even at a look.
For starters there’s no images of Robles on the account previous to July twenty sixth, 2022.
In truth when you dig into the account’s historical past previous to July 2022, there’s no particular person images we will use to determine the proprietor by face.
That’s as a result of they’ve all been deleted.
One photograph with faces is that this group shot from October 2017:
Vortic United’s Robles isn’t within the shot, which is unusual contemplating the caption is “Jensen Robles is ingesting espresso”.
I’ve circled the precise Jensen Robles account proprietor in pink. Usually I’d blur out the opposite faces nevertheless it’s vital for you to have the ability to confirm Vortic United’s Robles isn’t within the photograph.
How did I determine the precise account proprietor?
Subsequent up now we have some images of the account proprietor’s canine. This primary photograph is vital as a result of it ties the account proprietor to the canine and divulges he has black hair on his palms:
This photograph ties the canine and account proprietor to a black Lamborghini:
In a single undeleted video, the silhouette of the Jensen Robles account proprietor can briefly be seen as a mirrored image:
That’s the account proprietor and also you’ll word he’s undoubtedly not bald.
Right here’s one surviving photograph, presumably as a result of it’s a rear shot:
And eventually, this undeleted FaceBook “brief” – as soon as once more that includes the precise Jensen Robles account proprietor (I’m assuming they forgot to delete this):
Identical black Lamborghini. Identical hair. Identical body. Identical man.
Sadly I don’t know who this poor schmuck is. All I can inform you is he seems to be a German talking crypto bro whose account was hacked/hijacked circa mid 2019.
After that December nineteenth publish above, the subsequent publish is 9 months later in August 2020:
That very same day Vortic United’s FaceBook web page made a publish asserting its imminent launch:
At this level I don’t consider Rene Schwarze was on board. And I don’t know why however Vortic United didn’t launch. Or if it did, it was fast to flop and be forgotten about.
Apart from some spam posts, the Jensen Robles account lay dormant till July 2022 – which I consider is across the time Rene Schwarze signed on to play Robles.
As you’ll be able to see, the ruse behind Robles weight acquire was “hypothyroidism”.
Hyperthyroidism is unquestionably a factor, nevertheless it doesn’t change your pores and skin tone, hair shade, hair sort and cranium construction.
This brings us to Rene Schwarze.
Schwarze is a German nationwide who, circa 2017 to 2021, was dwelling in Gambia on a diplomatic passport.
To fill in Schwarze’s blanks pre Vortic United and “reincarnation” as Jensen Robles, I rely closely on reporting from Malagen’s award-winning journalist Mustapha Ok Darboe.
Darboe reviews that Schwarze was a part of a “diplomatic passports on the market” ring.
The scandal which erupted in 2019 uncovered how politicians and public officers indiscriminately – and illegally – issued diplomatic passports in alternate for cash and political favours.
Curiously, one of many witnesses lined up by the state to testify in opposition to the previous presidential driver is Rene Schwarze, who claims to be an investor and bringer of traders.
He has been indicted within the passport fraud scandal and briefly detained by police, however the authorities didn’t cost him to court docket.
“In the event that they cost Rene to court docket, they’d cost a number of different folks. He is aware of an excessive amount of,” mentioned Sumareh.
Mansa Sumareh is a former driver at Gambia’s State Home (workplace of the President).
In 4 years of his operations right here, Rene has registered at the least six firms with related enterprise focus and introduced in at the least three completely different however associated teams of traders none of whom have ever made any tangible funding within the nation.
He seems to be in it with a girl recognized as his mom, Birgit Bresser, who claims to be a religion healer, therapeutic most cancers, HIV and different types of diseases.
Each are married to Gambians.
Investigations by Malagen have uncovered disturbing particulars in regards to the actions, right here and overseas, of those so-called international traders whose tracks bear vital hallmarks of a global funding fraud enterprise.
A few of them have been topics of newspaper and police investigations linking them to crime and corruption in lots of different locations, together with Germany, Austria and Italy in Europe and Guinea Bissau in West Africa.
Gambia’s diplomatic passport scandal was preceded by the identical operation in Guinea Bissau. Rene Schwarze was on the middle of bringing over German nationals from Guinea Bissau to Gambia because the scheme fell aside within the latter.
Investigations by police indicted Rene within the manufacturing of at the least six faux diplomatic passports in connivance with a Nigerian, Micheal [sic] Lapido who fled the nation following the passport fraud scandal.
In March 2019 Polish authorities confirmed they had been investigating the FutureNet Ponzi scheme.
Co-founders Stephan Morgenstern and Roman Ziemian had fled Poland in early 2019, presumably upon studying they had been beneath investigation.
Ziemian and Morgenstern fled to Dubai, and someday earlier than August 2019 acquired in touch with Rene Schwarze.
In August 2019, one other set of traders linked to Rene and colleagues of Brandl wrote to the presidency in a letter seen by Malagen, promising a joint help of kit price greater than €2.9 million euros to nation’s well being sector.
They’re Roman Kazimierz Zieman [sic], Anastasiia Ziemian and Stephan Karl Morgenstern.
“Be certain that is only a starting of a longlasting Donation Period to The Gambia,” wrote Stephan on the finish of the letter. “It’s a honour (sic) and pleasure for me to do that vital contribution for my nation.”
Like nearly all traders related to Rene, Roman Ziemian and Stephan Morgenstern are reported to be Ponzi stars who’re behind FutureNet, an alleged on-line enterprise fraud that rip-off traders.
They’d promised of their letter that the help would arrive in 5 weeks. It has been greater than fourteen months since.
Ziemian and Morgenstern managed to safe bogus Gambian diplomatic passports by way of Schwarze.
The paperwork can be made public later that yr, as a part of widespread reporting of Gambia’s diplomatic passport scandal.
Stephan Morgenstern was arrested in Greece final October. Roman Ziemian was arrested in Italy a number of weeks later.
FutureNet isn’t the one MLM Ponzi scheme Rene Schwarze could be tied to. We return to Mustapha Darboe’s reporting;
Rene’s thirst for extra firms couldn’t be quenched.
Seven months after getting his third firm in beneath three years, he registered three extra firms in Might 2020. All of them are associated to a model known as EXW.
Whereas EXW Capital Firm Restricted supposedly offers in agriculture, valuable stones, automobile rental, actual property and import & export, the EXW Capital Networking offers in digital pockets funding banking and FIAT.
Change Pockets was an MLM Ponzi scheme tied to German nationwide Benjamin Herzog. The rip-off floated “EXW token”, by way of which the Ponzi scheme was run.
I consider this is identical “EXW Capital Networking” Darboe references above.
Rene holds six p.c of shares in every of the businesses and his associate, one Manuel Batista, an Italian, holds majority share of 94 per cent.
Malagen has uncovered a basic lack of compliance with the regulation. And, true to kind, the businesses included by Rene, some courting again 4 years, have by no means complied. And none has a tax file or pay a dime to the state as tax.
Extra, the witness signature part of the memorandum of his EXW Capital Company Firm has been left vacant.
German and Austrian authorities issued EXW Pockets fraud warnings in early 2020, however no person was ever dropped at justice.
Final yr, tax authorities in Brusubi contacted Rene’s workplace regarding lack of fee of taxes on his companies, however he instructed them that he had not but began operations, sources on the Gambia Income Authority revealed.
He had nonetheless instructed Malagen 5 months earlier that he had employed a number of workers and was dealing in cryptocurrency and worldwide financing.
Schwarze purportedly married a Gambian nationwide in late 2020. He’s additionally reported to have transformed to Islam.
“Mustapha, I’m now a Muslim and my identify is Muhammed.” He introduced to me that he was to marry a Gambian whose identification we couldn’t disclose for moral causes.
Following continued probing by Darboe, Schwarze ultimately threatened to sue him in “worldwide court docket”.
Schwarze left Gambia in December 2020 however is reported to have returned later that very same month (unconfirmed).
So why did he flip up in Turkey in Mid 2022?
As reported by Spiegel, Schwarze probably can’t return house. A number of “traders” he organized diplomatic passports for have been arrested by German authorities.
If I’m not mistaken, flanking Schwarze on the appropriate on this group photograph of German nationals he introduced over to acquire passports, is the boxer Mario Daser.
Daser was arrested on fraud prices by German authorities in August 2019. I used to be unable to search out an replace on his case.
Whether or not Gambian authorities had been additionally investigating Schwarze stays unclear. It’d be fairly amusing if Schwarze was in Turkey on a still-current Gambian diplomatic passport.
Now we get to the Russians, who I consider Schwarze is working with in Turkey.
In poring over Vortic United’s advertising and marketing movies for facial photographs of Schwarze, I got here throughout this gentleman:
I didn’t acknowledge him at first however then it dawned on me I’d seen him earlier than.
Our blonde middle-aged good friend was none apart from the chaperone of Maxpread Applied sciences’ Boris CEO Albert Ignatev:
Our blonde good friend within the again sporting the whacky yellow shirt. The video the screenshot above will in all probability be deleted quickly however for now you’ll be able to watch it right here to see your self.
Issues get even higher when within the identical Vortic United video I noticed our blonde good friend in, Albert Ignatev himself could be seen scurrying throughout the display screen in the direction of the top:
The western face of Vortic United and Maxpread Applied sciences is Canadian nationwide Jan Cerato.
Cerato, contemporary off a late 2022 securities fraud superb in Canada, is positioned as Chief Advertising Officer for each Vortic United and Maxpread Applied sciences.
Cerato can be tied to CoinMarketBull, one other MLM crypto Ponzi scheme.
I consider Cerato is in mattress with the Russians. They’re probably funding his time between Dubai and Turkey.
Out of abundance of warning, I’d tie something Gregory promotes with out an identifiable proprietor as coming from the identical group of Russians.
I don’t really feel an organized crime syndicate would let anybody with precise energy seem on digicam, so it’s probably our blonde good friend and Albert Ignatev aren’t excessive up the totem pole.
As to what occurs subsequent, Russian authorities have issued fraud warnings for Maxpread Applied sciences and Vortic United.
Turkish authorities seem like asleep on the wheel and Dubai is the MLM crime capital of the world, so don’t anticipate something from them.
Ought to German and/or Gambian authorities want to pursue Rene Schwarze, they now know the place to search out him.
