Italy’s Companies and Exchange Commission (CONSOB) announced today that it has issued orders to block access to 17 unauthorized investment websites.
Specifically, Consob ordered the shutdown of 7 illegal financial intermediation websites and 10 websites through which illegal cryptocurrency services are provided.
Sites affected by the latest orders are:
- “Activ Markets” (websites and related pages and
- “Geneveinves” (website www.geneveinves.com);
- “NordaLeur” (website www.nordalueur.com and related page
- “Soria Limited” (website and related page
- “MRX Capital Trading” (website www.mrxcapitaltrading.com and related page
- “Gradiopexo” (website and related page
- “RYR888” (site
- “DFH258” (website
- “DXZ175” (site
- “JMY999” (site
- “DSG158” (website
- “WES218” (site
- “GJG258” (site
- “CFSD123” (website
- “R4MOX” (site
- “DFG789” (site
In issuing the orders, the Authority made use of the powers deriving from the “Decreto crescita” (“Development Decree”, transformed by Law No. 58 of 28 June 2019) and MiCAR (Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 and Legislative Decree No. 55 of September 2019).
The number of websites taken down since July 2019, when Consob was given the power to order the websites of fraudulent financial intermediaries to be blocked, has risen to 1,460.
The shutdown of these websites by ISPs operating in Italy continues. For technical reasons, it may take several days for the block to take effect.