Entangle the Crypto Spider Web - Part II
Binance Europe Services Limited and its players - Deep Dive
You can find a Tl;Dr + a mindmap at the bottom of this page
0. Recap of Part I and the first Mindmap.
The following chart summarizes the findings of my last research.
Legend:
The black arrows indicates a leading role in the company
Purple arrows indicates significant control over the company
Doted arrows indicate a former relationship/ownership
An orange backround indicates an active company
A grey backround an inactive company
A blue backround indicates a person
A black backround highlights a person with a central role in the web of crypto spiders.
→ I will expend this mindmap over time to give you a better understanding of the overall structure.
The maps are created with miro.com and I am currently using the free version. I don’t get payed for this statement.
The following information and pictures can be accessed on this webpage under the section Paystatus (none).
1. Binance Europe Services Limited - 2018
Binance Europe Services Limited was registered on 10th April 2018 by Joseph Farrugia.
One of the first documents were signed my Mr. Alexandre Dreyfus, the Founder and CEO of Chiliz and Socios.
crowdfundinsider.com stated on December 2020: “Alexandre Dreyfus, CEO and Founder at Chiliz, noted that Binance has been a supporter of the company since its launch.” - while Binance is mentioned as an early investor in Chiliz.
2. Binance Europe Services Limited - 2019
On the first of May 2019, Fiobian Manicolo resigned as Secretary of Binance Europe Services Limited and got replaced by Anneliese Gerada.
The same person was also part of HX Entertainment Limited - a company owned by Mr. Dreyfus - founded on 24 October 2016.
On 23. April 2019 a payment about 100.000 Euro was made to Mr. Zhao while the address named is 879B Tapines Avenue - a project where you can lease an appartment for 99-year.
On the 1th of June 2019, two more people where appointed as director of the company:
Ms. Guanying Chen (Chinese) and Ms. Mariana Dinkova Gospodinov (Bulgarian)
While I covered Ms. Chen in my last article, Ms Mariana Dinkova Gospodinovs contacts should at least be mentioned at this point:
According to her linkedin profil, she was part of Skrill for 8 years - SysPay Ltd for 7 years and part of Crypto.com since January 2020 while I assume that BES is the abbriviation for Binance Europe Services. For this reason she was working for SysPay and Binance Europe Services between August 2018 ot December 2019.
According to the documents from the official webpage, she resigned from her postion on the 30. October 2019.
According to her own LinkedIn Profil - she was part of a company named BES between August 2018 and January 2020 while the official documents of Binance Europe Services Limited just indicate an engagment between June and October 2019.
3. Binance Europe Services Limited -2020
On the 21 February 2020, Mr Dreyfus resigned from his postion as director of the company.
A document dated to the same day mentions a change in share ownership:
Mr. Changpeng Zhao (400,000 Shares - 100%)
to
Mr Changpeng Zhao (1,101,999 Shares - 100% payed) and Zokay Investments (1 Share - 100%) pay.
Zokay Investment LTD is, according to offshoreleaks.icij.org, shareholder of Mediarex Enterprises- the same company that is the shareholder of HX Entertainment Limited - together with Mr. Dreyfus which had already been mentioned above.
The last document that should be mentioned today was published 10. March 2020 and redacted on 21. April 2020 and lead to a share transfer from Mr. Zhao(?) to Binance Digital Limited which is registered in UK.
It is not surprising that Mr. Zhao is also the person with significant control over Binance Digital Limited (founded 29. November 2019).
People involved in Binance Digital Limted are:
Jonathan Stuart FARNELL - British (Oct 2021 - )
Simon Luke DINGLE - South African (Nov. 2019-Dec 2020)
Yu Helen HAI - British (Nov 2019- October 2021
Yu YONGJIE - Chinese (Nov 2019-Oct 2021)
Wei ZUOWEN - Chinese (Nov 2019-Oct 2021)
Tl;Dr: The web is growing!
After looking into Binance Europe Services Limted we are now aware of the fact that:
The founder of Chiliz and Socios, Mr. Alexandre Dreyfus, was part of Binance Europe Serives Limited for 2 years.
Ms. Mariana Dinkova Gospodinov was part of Binance Europe Services Limited, Skrill, SysPay and is currently working for Crypto.com
Mr. Changpeng Zhao recieved money to an address in Singapur, while he was most of the time the largest shareholder of Binance Europe Services Limited .
Zokay Investments hold at least one share in Binance Europe Services Limited. This company was mentioned in Paradise Papers and is related to Mr. Dreyfus.
Binance Digital Limted recieved shares of Binance Europe Services Limited from Mr. Zhao who is also the owner of Binance Digital Limited.
Mr Farnell is director of Binance Digital Limted and will further be a person of importance.
Thank you for reading my second post! Have a great day!
Annihil4tionGod