Part
6
High
wages and company perks
Clients who
were thought to have deep pockets were passed to “retention agents”
– more aggressive salespeople who would try to convince them to
deposit sums up to $100,000.
“The
really good salespeople would be sent to work in Israel,” Haji
said.
Withdrawal
requests were referred on to another team, he claimed, and in his
experience many were refused.
Despite high
wages and company perks such as a trip to South Africa, Haji left
Linkopia after three months.
“I
don’t believe the Mauritian authorities know what is going on,”
he said. “They think Linkopia is just an IT company.”
A spokesman
for Linkopia said: “Linkopia (Mauritius) Ltd is not familiar
with, and does not advocate any … questionable practices or
activities.”
The Bureau
spoke to another whistleblower, David, who says the big money
“retention” work was done by Herzog’s other company Yukom. He
says he worked on sales for Yukom, and estimated that in 2015
BinaryBook and another unnamed binary options website got people to
invest $5 to $7 million a month.
“One
month (…) a single salesman brought in more than $1 million,”
David told the Bureau.
Herzog’s
lawyer denied the claims. He said Yukom’s monthly income was “not
close to 10%” of the sum claimed by the insider and that other
companies around the world provided services to BinaryBook in
competition with Yukom.
Responsibility
for day-to-day running of Yukom lies with its CEO, an Israeli woman
named Lee Elbaz who joined the company in May 2014.
“While
Lee tries to encourage people to think Yukom is one big family, she
is feared,” David said. “She stays 12-16 hours a day in
the office.”
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