The “Portfolio Manager” Who Vanished: Recovering 71% Across Two Rails
It started as a friendship and became a “managed account.” When the manager stopped answering, GBP 96,000 was split across a bank wire and a crypto leg — so we worked both at once.
The operator was Apex Global Trades ↗. A retiree in Leeds had moved money first by bank transfer to an on-ramp, then as USDT into a “managed” account that only ever grew on screen.
01 /What happened
A months-long relationship built the trust; the “high-conviction window” closed the sale. The withdrawal request triggered a “capital gains bond” demand — the universal final extraction.
02 /The trace
We split the case in two: an authorised-push-payment fraud claim on the bank-wire leg, and an on-chain trace of the USDT leg to an exchange deposit address, filed together.
03 /The outcome
The bank recalled part of the wire and the exchange released the frozen crypto tranche. Combined, the two rails returned 71% — far more than a crypto-only case usually allows.
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