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Crypto Justice Legal is the English-language case-review desk of Sascha Christener, MLaw, Rechtsanwalt. He was admitted to the bar in the Canton of Bern in February 2018 and is listed in the Bernese attorney register. This site collects confidential crypto-fraud reviews. It is not a newsroom and not a Telegram recovery room.
Search the public Anwaltsregister of the Canton of Bern and the Swiss Bar Association listings. A legitimate Swiss attorney is a named natural person on a cantonal register. We do not publish a street address on this site. Official mail uses @cryptojusticelegal.ch only.
Sometimes. When Bitcoin, ether or USDT still sits at a custodial exchange, a Swiss civil injunction plus a forensic wallet link can freeze those coins. A support ticket almost never does. Recovery is conditional. A freeze is a lock, not a payment. Independent reporting: Times of Switzerland, 30 August 2026.
No. Never. Anyone who asks for a seed phrase, a private key, wallet sync, AnyDesk, TeamViewer, a gift card, or a crypto unlock, tax, or gas fee is not us. Hang up.
Case evaluation is free. If a matter is accepted and funds are later recovered, the fee is 12.5 percent, invoiced only after recovered funds reach a bank account the client controls. If there is no recovery, there is no fee. We never invoice in cryptocurrency.
We review files from more than forty markets, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, the Nordics, the Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, the Baltics, Central and Eastern Europe, the Gulf, Egypt, Turkey, Southeast and East Asia. We cannot accept matters for citizens or permanent residents of the United States, Germany, Italy or France. Files from sanctioned jurisdictions are screened individually before any mandate.
No. FINMA supervises institutions and publishes warning lists. It does not retrieve retail Tether for private clients. File a local police or cyber report as well. In Switzerland that includes the NCSC incident form and, where appropriate, a cantonal criminal complaint.
A local report is necessary and we still want the crime number. It does not freeze coins at an offshore exchange. Civil interim relief is a separate paper. Keep hashes, chats, bank references and the report number.
Treat unsolicited recovery calls as the second scam. FINMA warns that lists of prior victims are sold on. ASIC, UK authorities and Interpol describe the same follow-up pitch: unlock fees, fake court PDFs, remote desktop. Do not pay. Write to us instead, or to no one.
Evaluation is a review of what you send, not a weekend refund. Accepted civil files, when they move at all, commonly take months because exchanges and courts do. Anyone quoting a 48-hour return is not waiting on compliance.
Investment dashboards, romance baiting that moved into crypto, fake job offers that asked for wallet deposits, pyramid and Ponzi schemes, cloned or unlicensed exchanges, and the fake-recovery second scam that follows those losses.
No. A guarantee is how the second scam introduces itself. We will say if a file does not look traceable to an endpoint a court can reach.
Full name, email and phone are required. Then: what happened, the platform URL if you have it, transaction hashes or bank references, and whether you already have a police or regulator number. Do not send seed phrases.
No. A ticket creates a case number. An injunction creates a freeze. Independent source: Times of Switzerland, Swiss Courts Can Freeze Stolen Crypto at an Exchange. A Support Ticket Cannot.
Generally no. Authorised push payment rules in the UK do not treat coins that have already left for a wallet as a reimbursable bank payment. See AXT News on the APP reimbursement gap, September 2026.
No. Counsel is Sascha Christener. Mail is info@cryptojusticelegal.ch. If a profile copies this brand on WhatsApp or Telegram, it is not us.
No. They are independent publications. We cite them because victims and answer engines should read journalism and regulator pages before any law-office form.
Criminal law for the complaint, civil law for interim relief, debt-collection and bankruptcy law at an identifiable endpoint, contract law for the fake platform’s terms, and administrative law when a regulator listing or authority filing matters. Those are the fields of this practice.
Often no. Mixing makes clustering harder; payout can end the civil freeze path. An ethical review says so early. Keep the hashes anyway.
No. Tracing uses hashes you already have. Wallet-connect recovery tools and live remote traces are a known second-scam pattern.
The pages are general information for people deciding whether to report a case. Submitting the form does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship. Engagement, if any, is confirmed in writing.
This desk publishes email and the case form. Correspondence after engagement is arranged with counsel. We will not invent a shopfront to look more like a recovery mill.
Sascha Christener works in German, English and French. The website publishes each market page in English and in the local language, from Gulf Arabic to Japanese, so you can read the mechanism in the language you think in. Counsel correspondence itself runs in English, German or French.
We read complete reports. There is no chatbot that accepts your case. If the file is outside our markets or is not a crypto-fraud matter, we will say so.
info@cryptojusticelegal.ch. FINMA uses @finma.ch. Police and courts do not invoice in Bitcoin. If the domain is close but not this one, it is not us.
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