Police swarm Igor Alberts’ & Andreea Cimbala’s house
Dutch media are reporting several police units responded to a situation at Igor Alberts’ and Andreea Cimbala’s Netherlands residence.
The incident took place on Sunday evening and may have involved armed individuals.
Several police units, a helicopter, a canine unit and team of DSI agents responded to the incident.
The DSI is the Special Intervention Service, an “elite police tactical unit of the Dutch National Police Corps.
What prompted Dutch police to respond to the incident and why has not been disclosed.
When queried on the show of force, Dutch police told Telegraaf it was “because there were people who may have had firearms”.
Telegraaf reports the police have “searched” for the people involved “in several places”. Whether they are referencing Alberts and Cimbala, or a third-party is unclear.
A police spokesperson ‘did not want to say whether the person or persons in question have now been found.’
Alberts and Cimbala are best known in the MLM industry for stealing millions through OneCoin.
As the OneCoin Ponzi began to collapse, Alberts and Cimbala jumped ship for DagCoin.
DagCoin is run by former OneCoin scammer Nils Grossberg and is essentially a clone scam.
Alberts’ and Cimbala’s Ponzi success was, at the very least, partly attributable to heavy promotion on BusinessForHome.
BusinessForHome is run by fellow Dutch national Ted Nuyten. To what extent Nuyten and Alberts have entered into a business relationship over the years has never been publicly disclosed.
As this is a breaking story, stay tuned for any updates as we comes across them.
Update 29th June 2020 – Bussums Niews are reporting no arrests were made during the raid.
Update #2 29th June 2020 – Cross-referencing several sources I’ve come to the conclusion this wasn’t a raid. Police were responding to a disturbance Sunday evening.
That’s all we know for now so I’ve updated the article to reflect that.
1. I haven’t been able to confirm Alberts’ and/or Cimbala’s arrest at this time.
2. As I write this BusinessForHome has not covered the story.
3. I also haven’t been able to confirm whether Ted Nuyten is shitting bricks right about now.
4. There is no Pacer case listing for Igor Alberts (US). If the US govt has gone after Alberts it’s still under seal.
Another angle is that armed intruder(s) might have stormed Alberts’ and Cimbala’s residence.
If that’s the case there’s a high probability they could be OneCoin and/or DagCoin victims.
Regio14 has additional photos of the scene: regio14.nl/2020/06/28/verdachte-situatie-bij-house-of-dreams-in-naarden/
It’s a well known common fact that Alberts-Cimbala are locally earned the title as the “gypsy’s” with the poorest taste of anything, bling-bling all over paid by idiots believing in his crooked schemes of making money over-night.
Those who lost millions to these 2 aren’t victims but nothing more they got karma for being greedy, and the rumour has it that some of these losers have paid their last pesos to get back @ the fatso.
You figure some underworld figures are looking for them to pay up? 🙂
Another update:
Alberts has contacted (“apped” is the word used) the Dutch business magazine Quote:
quotenet.nl/nieuws/a32994995/gewapende-inbraak-en-poging-tot-kidnapping-bij-mlm-miljonairskoppel-albertscimbala/
He and Cimbala weren’t at home, because they were giving a workshop in nearby Hilversum at the time of the events.
Alberts describes what happened as an “armed intrusion and attempted kidnapping”. According to him, their security systems alerted them of the fact that their house was being approached by men in balaclavas, and he provided a picture of one such man.
He also claims that the police had already been guarding his house for several months, and that a special kidnap prevention unit and a helicopter with heat-sensing equipement were involved in the intervention.
According to the police, they responded to phone calls from various sources, which one presumes means neighbours.
The Quote article also includes stuff about Alberts’ murky business arrangements, which I haven’t the time to read in any detail yet.
Fun detail: one of Alberts’s neighbours is Jan des Bouvrie, a celebrity in the Netherlands, ubiquitous interior designer to the rich and famous – IOW, the kind of people who can afford the houses in that neighbourhood.
His designs, while often mocked because they’re so formulaic and instantly recognisable, have also been extremely influential on general taste, because he’s been very clever at selling his brand in more affordable ways. If you do an image search on “Jan des Bouvrie interieur”, you’ll get a pages and pages of his stuff, and understand why the neighbours’ sense of what a rich person’s house should look like doesn’t fit very will with that of Alberts and Cimbala.
According to Quote magazine, they have a billiards room whose walls have red velvet carpeting, with the ceiling being painted with Sistine Chapel reproduction frescos. Alberts: “The contractor I asked refused to do it. He said: ‘You must be crazy’. So I did it myself.”
Unreal he uses this situation in Quote magazine to turn it into a publicity for his success and Dagcoin.
Nowhere the link is made that Onecoin stole 16 Billion and him stealing 100 Million, because as he claims, he’s a victim.
The fact that the police was surveying the premises since weeks, means to me they were aware of danger. Maybe some victims with less good intentions made it clear to them before that they wanted to recuperate their money ?
No surprise to me that people start to knock on doors to get their money back from these crooks.
Imagine being in Dutch law enforcement and having to take statements from scammers in a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme.
Given “gave a workshop in studio” is likely promoting a business, that business is probably DagCoin.
They were literally promoting another Ponzi scheme while armed assailants attempted to stage a kidnapping, in all likelihood related to promotion of another Ponzi scheme (OneCoin).
I’d like to think someone in the DSI isn’t woefully incompetent. Christ almighty.
“Elite police tactical unit” suggests that the DSI is the equivalent of SWAT teams in the US. If so Ponzi and MLM scams are not their department.
If Holland has an equivalent of the US’ Department of Justice or UK’s Serious Fraud Office, taking action against Alberts and Cimbalas’ scamming would be their job.
As for the DSI, if they get intelligence that the mob is going to invade a scammer’s house and kidnap them, they’re duty-bound to intervene in exactly the same way as if the mob was trying to kidnap Mother Teresa.
The heavy weapons brigade can’t just arrest the victims for being scammers because that’s not how fraud investigations work.
It is however how you bungle complex investigations and secure yourself a job for life in cycle lane enforcement.
More likely, given that this is the EU and not the US, if the Dutch fraud squad even have a file on Alberts and Cimbala, it would probably read “two-bit pyramid shcammers, mostly shcammed people outside Holland, inshiffishient evidensh, nothing to shee here.”
I’d much rather see Alberts and Cimbala behind bars than whatever their kidnappers had in store for them.
What boggles the mind is we’re not talking peanuts here. Tens of millions of dollars stolen through a Ponzi scheme and not a peep.
And its not like Alberts is hiding his ill-gotten wealth.
Germany arrested BitClub Network’s programmer, at the behest of US authorities.
It seems unless the US pursue an investigation, regulation of MLM Ponzi schemes in EU is non-existent.
In Europe there is unfortunately no combined “European” effort against ponzi scams. Interpol and Europol are to busy with other crimes that this is not a priority, since nobody files a criminal complaint.
As a result of that each country on its own needs to go after them or not, which depends entirely again if a complaint is filed or not.
So far it’s incomprehensible not more people have stepped to there local police agency to file a complaint against the presenters leaders of these ponzi scams in their countries.
Speaking to a friend of mine who lost 10K in one of these scams, he stated “well I shouldn’t have been so stupid to believe them, if I need to go now through all the hassle of a complaint, maybe to never see my money back anyway, why would I bother?”
That’s a little bit the psychology mental thing I believe many go through or at least the ones that didn’t put their last dime in the hands of those crooks.
If it would be me, no doubt I would step and file a complaint.
You know what is even more incredible, if you are not a victim yourself, you can’t file a complaint for the rest in Europe. So somebody needs to step up and dare to go to the authorities in The Netherlands as the first.
Besides that I’ve translated the interview from Quote magazine and he describes that he is involved in 150 companies so probably the money has been laundered and secured so nobody can touch it even if he goes to jail.
Let’s keep in mind that the one and only source mentioning a kidnapping attempt, and the police already keeping an eye on the house, is Alberts himself, who contacted Quote, in an attempt to gain further publicity from this. I’d give it as much credence as anything said by Alberts deserves.
The police said nothing of the kind, or indeed said much of anything. The use of a DSI arrest team is standard practice when dealing with possibly armed suspects.
A call from a neighbour reporting seeing masked, possibly armed, intruders approaching the house would be enough reason to bring them in.
That he picked Quote isn’t surprising, they clear treat him with kid gloves. Most of the article about the alleged kidnapping attempt appears to consist of stuff taken from a recent profile piece on the couple (which doesn’t seem to be online).
In those they do mention OneCoin, but only to allow Alberts to portray himself as a victim, a simple soul who only wants to make the world a better place, especially for people in poorer countries, and who was deceived by the evil genius Dr. Ruja. Because the concepts behind OneCoin were perfectly sound, he is now putting things right with DagCoin, which is all the wonderful ideas behind OneCoin without any fraud.
No mention at all of the money Alberts made, and kept, from OneCoin. No mention at all that DagCoin is just another Ponzi. Also no mention of the fact that he’s a convicted fraudster.
Another observation: if this was a kidnap attempt, the perpetrators were hopelessly incompetent. It would be extremely easy to determine whether Alberts and Cimbala were at home. And which kidnapper plans to invade someone’s house, which they know is heavily securitized, when they could instead lie in wait for their car on mostly deserted roads surrounded by trees?
Anyone who wants to take a look at the area to see how much easier that would be, the address is easily obtainable. I don’t think a couple who put their full names in huge letters on the street gate, and regularly show off their house in videos, are entitled to much regard for their privacy.
Here’s a site where the house was put up for sale before Alberts bought it: vbjvastgoed.nl/portfolio_page/meentweg18.
On the other hand, if the intention was only to steal money and valuables kept in the house, or to simply cause lots of damage to his prized possessions to teach him a lesson, waiting until nobody was at home would be the sensible thing to do.
Hell, I wouldn’t even put it past Alberts to stage such a ridiculously inept kidnap attempt himself, as a publicity stunt.
@PassingBy – I don’t think the couple, themselves, were the target of the alleged kidnapping, but rather maybe another member(s) of their family.
Surely it would be easy enough to confirm the couple’s presence at home, or not. Alberts has spoken several times over the few dozen months following his departure from OC regarding both thwarted and other alleged encounters with adversarial forces aimed at threatening to harm him (or his family). He has mentioned an increasing need for security (and body guards) several times over that period.
Presently, the still unknown is whether the alleged infiltration attempt stemmed from (their) present or previous “business” ventures, or whether it was (perhaps less likely) just criminal opportunists who’d identified a couple flaunting their wealth, publicly, often and online for all to see from the “inside.”
Make that: he claims to be involved in 150 companies. The magazine does make the point that that is no more than his claim, and that no evidence for it, or for anything else he says about his wealth, can be found in any publicly accessible records.
The explanations he tries to provide for why his and Cimbala’s names are nowhere to be found in relationship to this supposed business empire, are brief and extremely vague, and don’t make much sense to me. Being a part-owner of 150 companies, without appearing in public records as a shareholder or partner or director in any of them?
That he’s made a lot of money isn’t in doubt. But I doubt he’s anywhere near as rich as he makes out to be (he claims to be “easily” among the 500 richest people in the Netherlands, and take in €2.5 million a month “in commissions alone”).
We tend to assume that someone’s visible spending is related to their wealth and income in some sensible proportion. If you’re dealing with someone whose primary objective is to appear rich, financial prudence be dammed, that assumption doesn’t hold.
If you’re only moderately wealthy, it’s not that difficult to create the impression that you’re fabulously rich, for a period of time at least, by spending as much money as you can sustain without immediately going broke, in the most ostentatious way possible.
That’s certainly a possibility. Alberts has produced something like a dozen children with a variety of women (he seems to go through them the way he goes through MLMs), and one of the reports mentions some of these stay at the house on-and-off too.
You’ve made me remember something I read when I first heard about Alberts, and tried to find out more about his history (which is hampered by the fact that he started out when a lot of media coverage in the Netherlands wasn’t yet available online).
There was a claim that the reason Alberts seems to be so rich yet so curiously non-existent on paper in terms of actual ownership of anything, is that he uses his children and some of their mothers as stooges, putting all his financial interests in their names. Legally, he is pretty much penniless.
This was also claimed to be related to his criminal record as a fraudster (which definitely is substantiated) barring him from holding company directorships in the Netherlands.
Again, it’s only something I read somewhere on the net, take it for what it’s worth, but it certainly doesn’t sound implausible. (By his own admission, he also uses foreign shell companies.)
But I still have to wonder about this strange combination of an attempted kidnapping, and an attempt to enter his house. If you want to kidnap someone, or for that matter kill them or just put the frighters on them, you try to get them when they’re out of the house, on their own, and with as few other people around as possible.
Given the location of the house, everyone who stays there must use one narrow, quiet road through the woods to get in and out – it’s just one car wide, runs 1.4km without any side roads, has no street lighting, and has long stretches without any buildings with a view of the road.
Yet once you’re off that road, you’re only a minute or so away from the motorway system. It seems a pretty much ideal setting for a kidnapper to lie in wait.
Yet by the same token, if you enter the house and set off an alarm, or a neighbour spots you (there are other villas close by), the police only has to send two cars to block the road at both ends, and you’re trapped, unless you make your way out on foot through the woods. It’s a pretty idiotic thing to do.
Can confirm Alberts was promoting DagCoin. Scam events have/had been taking place in the Netherlands over the weekend.
Not even read the article yet and already got a big big smile on my face 🙂
I am curious about Igor Albert’s full story. I have been researching him and so far connected him to Amway, a travel MLM (suspect World Class Travel Network), One Coin and now DagCoin.
I cannot find anything about his birth family and if there were people he is related to that have some sort of criminal past.
I did see something about him being a florist when he was young but there is very little information.
I plan to make a series of videos sharing the stories of the top people who were recruiting for OneCoin. Can anyone provide more information about him?
I did find he was connected to Marissa Honing when he was with Organo Gold. I do not find anything much about her. I did find a Marissa shilling some entrepreneur courses which may be her but different last name.
Andrea and Lulian’s past is also a mystery. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
@PassingBy
Anyone who publishes such sums on their website should not be surprised if criminals suspect a lot of money there.
Igor E. Alberts in November 2017: $ 58 + million lifetime earnings
share-your-photo.com/447a893c26
Igor E. Alberts in October 2019: $ 110 million lifetime earnings
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Andreea Cimbala also boasts big sums of money! $ 65 million
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The website whatdreamsmaycome.eu of Igor Alberts and Andreea Cimbala has not been accessible for several weeks and is in quarantine.
share-your-photo.com/4451d34dce
What does DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN mean in concrete terms?
share-your-photo.com/9634c19c06
It means they’ve closed down the site, and don’t even want to keep the domain name.
When a website owner (through their registrar) deletes the name, the registry operator, in this case EURid, keeps the name on hold for 40 days – 40 days being a “quarantaine” in French (the word is misspelled in English).
During that period, the original owner can still reclaim it, should they have second thoughts, or if the deletion was the result of an error or sabotage or something. Only afterwards does the name become generally available again.
The DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error is simply the result of that, it means the Domain Name System can no longer link the name to an IP address, since the site is no longer there.
@PassingBy
Okay thank you very much.
Hi guys if your on Facebook with that idiot king jaymes in his latest video In the barbershop he bigs up igor e alberts and his wife.
1) is he now joining dag
2) in igor e Alberts comming back to onecoin something strange is happening I remember onecoiners calling igor a ugly cartoon and his gold digger wife when he left. why would he big up the so called enemy of onecoin the king of the dag con scam.
Pay close attention onecoin mentioned less on the video.