In a nutshell, this is how I see the Qenta aspect in all of this mess:
EPB had already been driven to the brink of insolvency in 2021. The bank had almost no financial cushion, hardly any liquidity. The supervisory authority in PR recognized this, issued a warning and ultimately classified it as insolvent. This is evident from EPB's figures and is even, hiddenly, acknowledged by PS in the statement of claim. Although a different conclusion is drawn in the plaint. PS made various attempts to sell off EPB before it was declared insolvent. Initially, in order to profit as much as possible from a︀ sale, and in the end more or less at any price. The main thing was︁ to minimize losses!
The deal with Qenta: Qenta was acquired by Aurin Investment, which is︂ part of Kerim Chouaibi's network of companies. It was part of the insolvent Wirecard AG,︃ which had already been broken up by insolvency administrators at the time. Wircard is the︄ largest accounting fraud in German financial history and has caused billions in damage. The parts︅ of Wirecard acquired by Chouaibi, which were renamed ´Qenta’, are: Qenta Gmbh, registered in Frankfurt,︆ Qenta Payments CEE GmbH, registered in Graz (Austria) and Qenta Technologies Group Sarl, registered in︇ Munsbach (Luxembourg).
None of them is a bank. The Qenta in question for EPB customers︈ is Qenta, registered in Frankfurt. It has three consumer products: Qenta app, G-coin, Responsible Gold.︉ The latter is a sub-company based in Houston, Tx (USA). It was previously called Emergent︊ Technologies and was founded by Brent de Jong. However, EmTech was acquired by Qenta in︋ 2022 and no longer exists. Brent de Jong was then made CEO of Qenta.com in︌ this deal. Kerim Chouaibi is part of the management team. He is mainly involved in︍ the management of his network of companies around Aurin Investment. Brent de Jong offers clients︎ two options to trade in precious metals, in the form of Responsible Gold: a) US️ clients trade via GWC, a Delaware registered company. b) all other clients (except UAE) trade Responsible Gold via Dubia DMCC (Dubai Multi commodities center = 0% corporate tax).
This means that the statement that Qenta is registered in Delaware is factually incorrect. Qenta is a GmbH registered in Germany. Likewise, Qenta is in no way a bank. At best, it is a precious metals trading platform.
Why the supervisory authority in PR could ultimately allow such a thing, i.e. that opt-in customer funds could be moved to a precious metals trading platform in Dubai, is, like some other questions surrounding EPB's insolvency, a subject area︀ that lawyers can probably best clarify in the context of a class action by the︁ affected parties? In any case, it must be assumed that deliberate efforts were made to︂ conceal any proximity of Qenta to the former Wirecard from EPB's international clientele in order︃ to make it less easy to raise concerns!