Where’s the money?

Liquidators probing whether Globix is ‘a fraud or Ponzi scheme’ while Olive Press names its beleaguered boss, believed to have fled to Barcelona

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By Walter Finch

The insolvency team is trying to establish if Globix was a fraud, while primarily recovering any assets it can find.

“Was Globix a scam? Good question,” insolvency expert Adrian Hyde, of Begbies, told dozens of investors gathered for the online meeting.

“We know it's been suggested it was a Ponzi scheme,” but he added it was ‘too early’ to an- swer the question. He also denied the liquidators were in any way connected to Carreras and were ‘working for’ the Gibraltar courts. But Hyde made it clear that they would go after the assets and property of individuals who may have ‘received huge gifts from the company’, even if it meant bankrupting them first.

POLICE are urging parents to accompany children at all times at a sports club on the Costa del Sol after a shocking attempted kidnapping.

A man in a grey car tried to snatch a 15-year-old boy after he had left Club Deportivo sports complex in La Cala de Mijas at about 9.30pm on March 13.

In an official statement, the club described the perpetrator between 30-40 years old, of medium height, with a beard.

“He tried to get one of our cadet players into his car against his will on the route between the soccer field and Aldi,” it said.

“Luckily he was able to get out and run, arriving at his house safe and sound.

“We ask all families to exercise extreme caution and do not let their children come to training or go home alone.” ing to say to you.”

Club Deportivo has requested extra police surveillance.

He added: “Basically someone is shit stirring and if you have any evidence send it to me.”

Drug ring smashed Con nabbed

POLICE have arrested 19 people in Malaga who are allegedly a part of a ‘well-known drug-trafficking clan’. The group can also allegedly be linked to a robbery at a jewelry store in Malaga where €95,000 of jewels were stolen. Officers raided a dozen homes in La Trinidad in Malaga and Portada Alta, seizing a rifle, pistols, a silencer, ammunition, a sword and 50 grams of cocaine.

Two of the arrested men who allegedly used a large knife to rob a jewelry store on Calle Marmoles sparked police to investigate the clan which was ‘well-known’ in the La Trinidad neighbourhood.

The Olive Press can reveal that the 39-year-old CEO of Globix is currently hiding out in Barcelona after fleeing from furious investors in Gibraltar. Carreras, who speaks fluent Russian, studied Economics at Tambov University, in Russia, where he met his business partner Sidirov, with whom he set up Globix in 2021. He lists himself as a ‘crypto mining broker’ on his LinkedIn profile and claims to have worked in the energy sector, as well as for the Ministry of Defence.

When we finally tracked down Carreras for comment he told the Olive Press: “I have noth-

It was a kidnap attempt on Sidirov last June by angry investors frozen out of their funds that first alerted authorities that something was amiss with Globix.

In the kidnap, Sidirov was snatched with his girlfriend outside their El Campello villa, before they contacted police. It was during the attack that Sidirov was able to send an estimated €40m to Ukraine in a crypto-wallet.

A DANGEROUS convict on the run from a French jail has been arrested in Torremolinos after a woman reported him for domestic violence. The 28-year-old, who was in prison for drug trafficking, robbery and assaulting police, had been serving a long sentence at the Liancourt Penitentiary Centre north of Paris.

MUSIC legend Bob Dylan is bringing his 'Rough and Rowdy' tour to Spain this June with 12 concerts. The veteran, who turns 82 in May, will perform in Sevilla, Alicante, Barcelona, Granada, Huesca, Logroño, Madrid and San Sebastian. His visit to Alicante is regarded as a major entertainment coup for the city, which is vying for international stars to come there, with another veteran - Sir Tom Jones - doing a show at the Plaza de Toros on August 1.

Dylan's Spanish dates are part of a world tour that started in November 2021 and is slated to finish next year.