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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Finnish Ponzi scheme led by Hannu Kailajärvi</div> <p><b>WinCapita</b>, previously <b>WinClub</b> and <b>GiiClub</b>, was a Finnish <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Ponzi_scheme" title="Ponzi scheme">Ponzi scheme</a> that advertised itself as a private <a href="/wiki/Investment_club" title="Investment club">investment club</a> engaged in <a href="/wiki/Currency_trading" class="mw-redirect" title="Currency trading">currency trading</a>. In reality, it was a <a href="/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market)" title="Bucket shop (stock market)">bucket shop</a> like many other <a href="/wiki/Foreign_exchange_fraud" title="Foreign exchange fraud">foreign exchange fraud</a> schemes. It operated mainly in <a href="/wiki/Finland" title="Finland">Finland</a>, with a smaller number of members also in <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a>. The operation collected about 100 million euros from more than 10,000 investors, probably the largest fraud in Finnish history.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2008, the <a href="/wiki/Keskusrikospoliisi" class="mw-redirect" title="Keskusrikospoliisi">National Bureau of Investigation</a> started investigations of the club.<sup id="cite_ref-poliisi1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poliisi1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2011, the District Court of Vantaa found the chief suspect Hannu Kailajärvi guilty of aggravated fraud, and sentenced him to four years in prison.<sup id="cite_ref-dec11_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dec11-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2013, the Court of Appeal of Helsinki found him guilty of aggravated fraud and a money collection offence, and increased his prison sentence to five years.<sup id="cite_ref-feb13_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-feb13-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The verdict was upheld by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_court" title="Supreme court">Supreme Court</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scheme">Scheme</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WinCapita&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Scheme"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The company presented itself as an invitation-only <a href="/wiki/Foreign_exchange_market" title="Foreign exchange market">foreign exchange</a> investment club that required an initial investment of several thousand <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euros</a> while promising up to 4-fold returns.<sup id="cite_ref-AL2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AL2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a proof of concept for its members it offered an automatic "signal clock" software which was said to predict good times to buy or sell a currency.<sup id="cite_ref-HS20080914_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HS20080914-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Members for the new club were acquired at presentation meetings, to which current members were encouraged to bring friends, who could then in turn be persuaded into investing in the club. The importance of respect and loyalty to the club were underlined in its rules.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The "investors' club" was especially popular on several <a href="/wiki/Web_forums" class="mw-redirect" title="Web forums">web forums</a>. The few lucky ones on the top of the pyramid who got initially paid told success stories to others, spreading trust to the club. According to intermediary police report over 10,000 people invested a total of almost 100 million euros in the club. However, only a small fraction of those have filed a police report so far.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> (About 2,250 as of June, 2009, for a sum of 33 million euros<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History">History</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WinCapita&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The investment company had been in operation since 2005 under the name "WinClub". The company was registered in <a href="/wiki/Panama" title="Panama">Panama</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It changed its name to WinCapita when the <a href="/wiki/MTV3" title="MTV3">MTV3</a> television channel reported in 2007 that the police were investigating a <a href="/wiki/Pyramid_scheme" title="Pyramid scheme">pyramid scheme</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-HS20080914_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HS20080914-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ongoing investigation had little effect on the club's membership, which continued to rise quickly. The club published reports to its members, where it claimed the media had made a mistake and the claims were out of line.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The operations continued as WinCapita until 7 March 2008. On this day, the web site of the company went offline<sup id="cite_ref-HS20080914_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HS20080914-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the chief suspect, Hannu Kailajärvi, consequently disappeared from the public. </p><p>Kailajärvi was arrested in early December 2008 in <a href="/wiki/N%C3%A4ssj%C3%B6" title="Nässjö">Nässjö</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a>. He had been hiding in a small cottage that had been acquired for him by a Sweden-residing person with a Finnish name. Kailajärvi was believed to have lived at least half a year in the cottage, telling his neighbours that he was renovating the house for a famous Finnish <a href="/wiki/Opera_singer" class="mw-redirect" title="Opera singer">opera singer</a>. Swedish police found three mobile phones in the cottage, and an Internet connection had been installed.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conspiracy_theories">Conspiracy theories</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WinCapita&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Conspiracy theories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Even after Kailajärvi's disappearance, many club members still had faith in the club, forwarding reassuring emails to each other. In March 2009 the biggest Finnish newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Helsingin_Sanomat" title="Helsingin Sanomat">Helsingin Sanomat</a></i> published an article<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> about the wild-running <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theories</a> surrounding WinCapita. Many former members still believed that the club had been legitimate and that the police and the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Interior_(Finland)" title="Ministry of the Interior (Finland)">Ministry of the Interior</a> were concealing evidence. It was stressed in the report that the chief suspect Hannu Kailajärvi had reportedly already admitted in the questionings that the operation had been fraudulent. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criminal_investigation">Criminal investigation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WinCapita&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Criminal investigation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In November, 2009, the investigation was ongoing, and the main suspect was held for trial in Finland.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another suspect, who is thought to have had a more minor role in the scheme, was also being held after being arrested at the airport when returning from <a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a>. </p><p>In late October, 2009 another suspect was arrested in the WinCapita case, this time by the Thai police.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is said to have had a central role in the scheme. A warrant for his arrest was declared <i><a href="/wiki/Trial_in_absentia" title="Trial in absentia">in absentia</a></i>, and an Interpol <a href="/wiki/Red_notice" class="mw-redirect" title="Red notice">red notice</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was simultaneously issued. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Trial">Trial</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WinCapita&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Trial"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The trial against the chief suspect Hannu Kailajärvi and his female associate began in February 2011 in the District Court of <a href="/wiki/Vantaa" title="Vantaa">Vantaa</a>. The accused were charged with <a href="/wiki/Fraud" title="Fraud">aggravated fraud</a> and a money collection offence. The prosecutor sought a minimum of five years in prison for Kailajärvi and forfeiting about six million euros to the state as criminal proceeds. Compensation to the victims will be tried in a separate case after the criminal trial has concluded, as will the criminal case against those up to 600 individuals that have been suspected of locally advancing the club.<sup id="cite_ref-HS-feb11_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HS-feb11-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-YLE-feb11_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YLE-feb11-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A total of five people are suspected of involvement in the central organization of the scheme, but three of them remain at large, and could face court proceedings later. Kailajärvi and his female associate denied all charges, pleading that the proceeds were legally acquired as in any other business. The product that the company had been selling was a "signaling system", that the members could use in their own currency trading. According to the defence, the club did not ever involve itself in currency trading because the development of the automatic currency trading software had not finished.<sup id="cite_ref-HS-feb11_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HS-feb11-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-YLE-feb11_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-YLE-feb11-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Claims for damages in the court proceedings total to 37 million euros. In December 2011, the district court found Kailajärvi guilty of aggravated fraud and sentenced him to the maximum sentence of four years in prison. His female associate and former partner received a one year's suspended sentence.<sup id="cite_ref-dec11_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dec11-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kailajärvi appealed the decision. In February 2013, the Court of Appeal of Helsinki found <a href="/wiki/Kailaj%C3%A4rvi" title="Kailajärvi">Kailajärvi</a> again guilty of aggravated fraud and also additionally of a money collection offence, and sentenced him to five years in prison, with his female associate receiving a 15-month suspended sentence for assisting.<sup id="cite_ref-feb13_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-feb13-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kailajärvi applied for a leave to appeal to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Finland" title="Supreme Court of Finland">Supreme Court</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the Supreme Court upheld the verdict, 5 years imprisonment with no parole for aggravated fraud and illegal fundraising.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kailajärvi was released on parole in April 2014, and is writing a book about the case.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There was another unsettled issue whose judicial process continued: whether the profits of WinCapita - some €20 million - could be considered proceeds of crime or not. The Court of Appeals of Eastern Finland decided (voting 2-1) that because part of the business conducted was legal, the profits cannot inherently be proceeds of crime. If they were, they would be confiscated by the government.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2014, the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Finland" title="Supreme Court of Finland">Supreme Court of Finland</a> decided that the profits are proceeds of crime, and can be confiscated.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The proceeds are used to compensate the victims.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=WinCapita&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 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<li><a href="/wiki/Exit_scam" title="Exit scam">Exit scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_real_estate" title="Extraterrestrial real estate">Extraterrestrial real estate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiddle_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiddle game">Fiddle game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fine_print" title="Fine print">Fine print</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreclosure_rescue_scheme" title="Foreclosure rescue scheme">Foreclosure rescue scheme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foreign_exchange_fraud" title="Foreign exchange fraud">Foreign exchange fraud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortune_telling_fraud" title="Fortune telling fraud">Fortune telling fraud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gem_scam" title="Gem scam">Gem scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Get-rich-quick_scheme" title="Get-rich-quick scheme">Get-rich-quick scheme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_goods_scam" title="Green goods scam">Green goods scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hustling" title="Hustling">Hustling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_coal_allocation_scam" title="Indian coal allocation scam">Indian coal allocation scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IRS_impersonation_scam" title="IRS impersonation scam">IRS impersonation scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scams_in_intellectual_property" title="Scams in intellectual property">Intellectual property scams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kansas_City_Shuffle" title="Kansas City Shuffle">Kansas City Shuffle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locksmith_scam" title="Locksmith scam">Locksmith scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_firm_fraud" title="Long firm fraud">Long firm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mismarking" title="Mismarking">Mismarking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mock_auction" title="Mock auction">Mock auction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moving_scam" title="Moving scam">Moving scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overpayment_scam" title="Overpayment scam">Overpayment scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patent_safe" title="Patent safe">Patent safe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke" title="Pig in a poke">Pig in a poke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pigeon_drop" title="Pigeon drop">Pigeon drop</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pork_barrel" title="Pork barrel">Pork barrel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pump_and_dump" title="Pump and dump">Pump and dump</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redemption_movement" title="Redemption movement">Redemption/A4V schemes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reloading_scam" title="Reloading scam">Reloading scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Return_fraud" title="Return fraud">Return fraud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salting_(confidence_trick)" title="Salting (confidence trick)">Salting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shell_game" title="Shell game">Shell game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sick_baby_hoax" title="Sick baby hoax">Sick baby hoax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SIM_swap_scam" title="SIM swap scam">SIM swap scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_reparations_scam" title="Slavery reparations scam">Slavery reparations scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner" title="Spanish Prisoner">Spanish Prisoner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SSA_impersonation_scam" title="SSA impersonation scam">SSA impersonation scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SSC_Scam" title="SSC Scam">SSC Scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam" title="Strip search phone call scam">Strip search phone call scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swampland_in_Florida" title="Swampland in Florida">Swampland in Florida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarmac_scam" title="Tarmac scam">Tarmac scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technical_support_scam" title="Technical support scam">Technical support scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telemarketing_fraud" title="Telemarketing fraud">Telemarketing fraud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thai_tailor_scam" title="Thai tailor scam">Thai tailor scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thai_zig_zag_scam" title="Thai zig zag scam">Thai zig zag scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three-card_monte" title="Three-card monte">Three-card monte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trojan_horse_(business)" title="Trojan horse (business)">Trojan horse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wash_trading" class="mw-redirect" title="Wash trading">Wash trading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam" title="White van speaker scam">White van speaker scam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Work-at-home_scheme" title="Work-at-home scheme">Work-at-home scheme</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Internet_fraud" title="Internet fraud">Internet scams</a> and<br />countermeasures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Avalanche_(phishing_group)" title="Avalanche (phishing group)">Avalanche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam" title="Pig butchering scam">Pig Butchering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carding_(fraud)" title="Carding 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