NO PLACE TO HIDE

LIQUIDATORS attempting to recover €40 million missing in a giant crypto fraud are zeroing in on the expat wife of one of the chief suspects.

Gibraltar courts are trying to pin down Alicante resident Alla Babenko, 35, who is married to Globix executive Pavel Sidorov. The Russian is now the subject of a disclosure order and will face public examination over her role in moving the unaccounted millions.

Babenko claims she was kidnapped outside her El Campello villa by a gang of investors who her husband had allegedly ripped off via

EXCLUSIVE Liquidators in Ponzi scheme target Russian fraudster’s expat wife in Alicante

By Walter Finch

a giant Ponzi scheme.

Four individuals posing as police - including one female Russian acting as translator - allegedly attempted to seize Globix crypto accounts which had been put in Babenko’s name.

Sex Crime

SIX men have been arrested after an 18-yearold German woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by the group in a hotel in Playa de Palma.

The young men recorded the incident on a mobile phone.

Police officers told Spanish news media that they had seized the phones of the men - all Germans aged between 21 and 23 - and had located the recording in question.

“With the help of staff from the hotel, the six youngsters who had allegedly taken part in the sexual assault were located and arrested,” the National Police stated.

with all four arrested. Judge Yeats granted the disclosure order against Babenko during a hearing in the Gibrlatar Supreme Court in which Globix bosses Damian Carreras and Sidorov finally made an appearance by video link.

Carreras, 39, allegedly funnelled tens of millions in investors’ cash to his business partner’s wife. According to prosecutor Daniel Feetham KC, the shady manoeuvre has made Babenko ‘a key player’ in efforts to trace the missing millions. She has been given seven days to respond to the order or be held in contempt of court.

If she fails to comply, lawyers in Madrid will open proceedings in Spain, while liquidators are also working with a legal firm in Moscow, should they try to flee to Russia.

Gibraltarian Carreras is hiding out in Barcelona ‘afraid for his life’ after reportedly being ‘dangled by his ankles’ over a ledge in order to return the money. It was the kidnap attempt