Juicy Fields was a medicinal cannabis investment platform with a Ponzi scheme structure that operated without CNMV authorization, promising returns of between 33% and 66% within 108 days. María Barbancho represented Willem Johannes Jacobus Van der Merwe, a Dutch citizen and temporary CEO of one of the companies within the corporate structure, raising a jurisdictional conflict before the Audiencia Nacional to transfer the case to Germany, where the platform’s main headquarters were located. Confilegal reports verbatim: “The root of the conflict, raised by lawyer María Barbancho on behalf of her client…”
Source: Confilegal, May 29, 2024 — “Jurisdictional conflict: the case of the alleged Juicy Fields Ponzi scheme at the AN may end up in Germany.”