Archive for category: Internet Criminal Law

In mid-September 2026, the Airsoft case is back in the headlines. An international investigative project called FakeTrade, initiated by DER SPIEGEL and continued by partners such as the Journal de Montréal, portrays an Israeli software company that allegedly supplied trading platforms with technology for years—platforms on which investors believed they were trading while their money was actually being diverted. Bavaria’s Central Office for Cybercrime (ZCB) in Bamberg has been investigating cases of this kind for years. A former Airsoft managing director was convicted there in June 2026.

In the last few months Ebay has unmistakably requested its commercial traders to prove that the sales and income generated through online trading have been declared to the tax office.