By Elton Qyno
One of the most well-known names of online stock market fraud through Call-Centers, the 43-year-old Israeli Roy Garin, has lost his trial in the Albanian Supreme Court, where he contested the decision to extradite him to Germany.
Garin, known by several names such as “Roy Garin”, “Mikael Finkle”, “Jean Merignac”, but also by the name “Roy Garine”, is one of the most wanted persons in Europe, due to frauds in millions of euros with online stock exchanges.
He was captured on February 4, 2025 in Tirana, during a “Blic” action in which German officers were also participants. While his Albanian collaborators have not yet been arrested by the State Police.
Journalist Elton Qyno has learned that most of his victims were committed in Germany, where the Justice of this country was able to prove 288 cases of fraud of German citizens, through more than 33 online platforms, bringing an economic damage of 26 million and 108 thousand Euros.
But this figure is only the tip of the iceberg, as cyber investigation experts who have dealt with the case, rate Roy Garin as one of the biggest fraudsters online with economic exchanges of Call Centers.
On May 5, 2026, the trio of judges, Ilir Panda, Sokol Binaj and Sandër Simoni, approved the extradition of 43-year-old Roy Garin to Germany, after the Federal Court of Bamberg, in September 2024, imposed the measure of “Prison”, since the German prosecution has charged him with “Fraud in an organized criminal group”.
Garin and his defense attorneys tried to convince the judges that extradition to Germany would put the Israeli citizen directly at risk of inhumane or discriminatory treatment of the citizen, Roy Garine, in Germany’s judicial and penitentiary facilities.
This is because of his Israeli ancestry, despite the fact that at the time of his arrest he was equipped with a Canadian passport.
This claim, according to the lawyers, is based on the “RIAS 2024” report, which documents over 8,600 anti-Semitic incidents for the first half of the year alone, the alarming increase in attacks against people with Jewish identity after the October 2023 conflict, the discretion of German courts for not counting detention suffered abroad.
But according to the College of the Albanian Supreme Court, this is a claim that is clearly not based on the law and evidence.
According to the investigative file transferred from Germany to Albania, which the journalist Elton Qyno was able to secure, the Israeli Roy Garine was active at least during the period from January 2015 to October 2022, in the so-called international industry of cyber commerce.
It is alleged that, since January 2015, Roy Garine was the leading member of a group of perpetrators consisting of dozens of people who had come together knowingly and with intent to consistently commit acts of fraud according to a certain course of action.
Primary responsibility within the group rested specifically with defendant Roy Garine and co-defendant Arthur Visokowski, who were the ringleaders of the group since at least 2015.
In the name of Arthur Visokowski, 3 companies have been opened in Cyprus such as “SEA Monster Cyprus LTD”, “Flarotis Limited” and “Flarotis Limited”. At the same time, the company Firts Order LTD is registered in England.
Meanwhile, the management hierarchy with an operational role included still unidentified persons with the nicknames “Marina”, “Antoine” and “Irina”.
This group of authors operated during different periods, partly in parallel and partly successively in different domains, among others, the following trading platforms, which were largely identical in content, at least under these brands:
1. International markets
2. KeyMarkets
3. Capital Holdings
4. Capital Hall
5. Share Founders
6. Global Pro Trader
7. Investingstate
8. GCG International
9. Market Pro Trade
10. Online Marketshare
11. Rocket Chart
12. Trendingraphs
13. Stock Global
14. Brokerunity
15. 24xForex
16. Indigo Capitals
17. Luxtrade group
18. Assetgates
19. BitCapitals
20. Navagates
21. Interactivetrade
22. GoCapitalFX
23. Status Markets
24. Grand Union etc.
At no time did the suspects intend to invest the funds of the recruited clients, and their sole purpose was to create a source of criminal income of considerable duration and magnitude.
Roy Garin, Arthur Visokowski as well as the persons with the codes “Marina”, “Antoine” and “Irina” were aware that their clients would not have paid the relevant sums of money if they had known what was really happening with their funds and that their sums were lost by them from the moment of payment.
Meanwhile, during the seizure of evidence, identification documents belonging to the accused Garina were found.
In the seized data, there are lists of aliases he used that directly linked him to criminal activity. These aliases are “Michael FINKLE”, “MIKE” and “Jean MERIGNAC”.
From the illegal activity, at least 288 victims have been identified who intended to make investments in 33 of the aforementioned platforms, but in reality suffered a total property damage of 26,107,648.82 Euros.
Now only the signature of the Minister of Justice is awaited, so that Roy Garinë will be flown from Rinas to Germany, where together with Arthur Visokowski, they will face the charge of “Fraud in an organized criminal group”.
