The CoinsPaid Scam and money laundering — Episode 2 — The tax fraud In this second article, we will delve into the various techniques put in place by CoinsPaid in order to defraud tax administrations through Europe.

Despite being pretty naive and potentially construed as a beginner’s mistake due to the lack of knowledge of the authors, CoinsPaid’s CEO was nevertheless informed of the risks of those operations as soon as 2021. The proceeds of their tax fraud are then laundered via various channels including their own employees.

In that context, we suspect the current local board member of Dream Finance OÜ (the legal structure operating in Estonia), Svetlana Prussova and her colleague Violaine Champetier de Ribes Christofle to have accepted dubious tax-free crypto payments directly from an offshore structure whereas the origin of those funds were clearly in a grey area.