FCA bans trio behind £35.5m scheme designed to bypass visa rules

Lynx Özeti

The Financial Conduct Authority has decided to bar three former senior Dolfin Financial (UK) Limited figures—Denisz Nagy, Sanjay Maraj and Roman Joukovski—from financial services over a scheme to circumvent UK investor visa requirements, imposing fines of £324,800 on Nagy and £122,000 on Maraj. The FCA found that the scheme operated during 2016–2019, with most clients paying £400,000 rather than investing the required £2m themselves, creating a false appearance of compliance, enabling at least 99 people to obtain investor visas and generating fees totalling at least £35.5m for Dolfin.