# Sarah Legal — Comprehensive Overview

> Sarah Legal is a Swiss law firm specializing in fund recovery from fraudulent trading platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and investment schemes. Founded and led by Sarah Schumacher, a licensed attorney and member of the Swiss Bar Association (Canton of Jura). The firm operates exclusively on a success-based fee model: no upfront payment, no retainer fees — clients only pay after successful fund recovery.

## Contact Information

- **Attorney**: Sarah Schumacher, Attorney at Law
- **Email**: sarah@sarahlegal.io
- **Location**: Canton of Jura, Switzerland
- **Bar Membership**: Swiss Bar Association (Canton of Jura)
- **Website**: https://sarahlegal.io
- **Consultation**: Free initial case assessment within 24–48 hours
- **Contact Page**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html

## Fee Structure

Sarah Legal operates on a strict no-win-no-fee model:

- **No upfront payment** is required to begin working on a case.
- **No retainer fees** or advance deposits are required.
- **Success-based only**: fees are payable only after recovered funds are successfully transferred to the client.

This model reflects the firm's confidence, ethical standards, and alignment with client outcomes.

## Practice Areas

### 1. Internet Fraud Recovery

Recovery of funds lost through online fraud including:

- **Fraudulent trading platforms**: Fake or unlicensed brokers that refuse withdrawals or manipulate trades.
- **Unauthorized transfers**: Funds moved without client authorization through compromised accounts.
- **Platform fraud**: Exchanges or platforms that misappropriate deposited funds.
- **Romance fraud with financial loss**: Scams where emotional manipulation leads to financial transfers.
- **Business email compromise (BEC)**: Corporate email fraud resulting in unauthorized wire transfers.
- **Phishing and identity theft**: Credential theft leading to unauthorized financial transactions.

### 2. Financial Disputes & Enforcement

Representation in complex financial disputes including:

- **Banking disputes**: Disputes with financial institutions over unauthorized transactions or negligence.
- **Unauthorized wire transfers**: Recovery of funds sent through fraudulent or unauthorized instructions.
- **Investment fraud claims**: Legal action against fraudulent investment advisors or schemes.
- **Fiduciary breach**: Claims against parties who violated their fiduciary duties.
- **Institutional negligence**: Cases where banks or financial institutions failed to protect client funds.
- **Cross-border enforcement**: Enforcement of judgments and orders across international jurisdictions.
- **Regulatory interface**: Coordination with regulators such as FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority).

### 3. Fund Recovery

Comprehensive asset recovery services including:

- **Asset tracing**: Tracking funds across multiple accounts, institutions, and jurisdictions.
- **Emergency freezing orders**: Urgent court applications to freeze assets before they can be dissipated.
- **Settlement negotiation**: Direct negotiation with platforms and institutions for fund return.
- **International enforcement**: Cross-border legal coordination for fund recovery.
- **Bank and intermediary claims**: Legal claims against financial intermediaries that facilitated fraud.
- **Multi-jurisdiction coordination**: Managing recovery efforts across multiple legal systems simultaneously.

### 4. Investment Fraud Recovery

Legal action against fraudulent investment operations including:

- **Ponzi schemes**: Recovery from classic pyramid and Ponzi-style fraud.
- **Fake trading platforms**: Action against platforms that simulate trading while misappropriating funds.
- **Fraudulent investment advisors**: Claims against unlicensed or deceptive financial advisors.
- **Unregistered securities**: Recovery from investments in unauthorized or fraudulent securities offerings.
- **High-yield investment programs (HYIPs)**: Action against schemes promising unrealistic returns.
- **Affinity fraud**: Cases involving fraud targeting specific communities or social groups.

## Recovery Process

Sarah Legal follows a structured four-step process:

1. **Case Assessment**: Confidential evaluation of the client's situation, comprehensive transaction analysis, and assessment of recovery viability. This step is free of charge.

2. **Evidence Gathering**: Fund tracing across accounts and institutions, documentation preparation, account flow reconstruction, and building a comprehensive evidentiary case for legal proceedings.

3. **Legal Action**: Filing creditor claims, initiating formal legal proceedings, obtaining freezing orders, and coordinating enforcement across jurisdictions as appropriate to the case.

4. **Asset Recovery**: Secure, lawful conversion and transfer of recovered assets through regulated channels to the client's verified bank account.

## Active Recovery Cases

Sarah Legal is currently representing clients in active refund and recovery proceedings against the following entities. Victims may be eligible to join ongoing proceedings.

### 4XAI
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Refund proceedings in progress. Currently representing clients who deposited funds with 4XAI and have been unable to make withdrawals.
- **Intake**: Ongoing
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=4xai

### Any Coin
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Recovery claims ongoing. Legal action is being pursued against Any Coin for failure to process client withdrawals and fund misappropriation.
- **Intake**: Ongoing
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=anycoin

### Click Trades
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Legal action pending. Preparing formal legal proceedings against Click Trades for fraudulent trading practices and withheld client funds.
- **Intake**: Accepting new clients
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=clicktrades

### Coin Effect
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Refund process initiated. Recovery proceedings have commenced against Coin Effect for unauthorized retention of client deposits.
- **Intake**: Ongoing
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=coineffect

### Europe FX
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Recovery proceedings active. Ongoing legal action against Europe FX for deceptive trading practices and failure to honor withdrawal requests.
- **Intake**: Accepting new clients
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=europefx

### Statefunds
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Client claims in progress. Legal representation for victims of Statefunds seeking recovery of deposited funds withheld by the platform.
- **Intake**: Ongoing
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=statefunds

### Bitwisenex
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Asset recovery ongoing. Pursuing legal remedies against Bitwisenex for fraudulent operations and client fund misappropriation.
- **Intake**: Accepting new clients
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=bitwisenex

### CryptoTradesAU
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Legal proceedings active. Formal action against CryptoTradesAU for operating without proper licensing and withholding client funds.
- **Intake**: Ongoing
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=cryptotradesau

### LVLB
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Recovery proceedings underway. Legal action is being pursued against LVLB for withholding client funds and failure to process withdrawal requests.
- **Intake**: Ongoing
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=lvlb

### mtcapitals.ai
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Fund recovery in progress. Representing clients who deposited funds with mtcapitals.ai and have been unable to access or withdraw their assets.
- **Intake**: Accepting new clients
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=mtcapitals

### IBC Exchange
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Legal action initiated. Formal proceedings are being prepared against IBC Exchange for unauthorized retention of client deposits and deceptive trading practices.
- **Intake**: Ongoing
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=ibcexchange

### Investment Global
- **Status**: Active Proceedings
- **Description**: Recovery claims ongoing. Legal action is being pursued against Investment Global for fraudulent investment schemes and failure to return client funds.
- **Intake**: Accepting new clients
- **Join**: https://sarahlegal.io/contact.html?case=investmentglobal

## Platforms With Prior or Ongoing Recovery Assistance

Sarah Legal has provided legal assistance to clients affected by the following platforms and exchanges. This list indicates prior or current legal assistance; it does not constitute a guarantee of recovery in any particular case.

QuadrigaCX, Vault of Satoshi, MapleChange, CoinField, ACX, MyCryptoWallet, CEX.IO, GateHub, Luno, Kraken UK, Uphold, CoinCorner, Nexo, Bitstamp, Mt. Gox, Coincheck, Zaif, Liquid, Cryptopia, Youbit / Yapizon, Coinrail, Bityard, Coinbene, Three Arrows Capital / 3AC, Hodlnaut, Bitrue, CoinEx, Bitfinex, Hotbit, CoinFLEX, Babel Finance, Thodex, Paribu, KuCoin, OKEx, BitMarket, Yobit, WEX / BTC-e, Lunar, LocalBitcoins, BitGrail, Bitso, BTCTrade, Gate.io, BitMart, BitConnect, PlusToken, LakeBTC, Bter, MTFE Wallet, DGBX, CoinPark, Paycer.

## Countries and Regions Served

Sarah Legal serves clients internationally with dedicated localized pages for:

- **Oceania**: Australia, New Zealand
- **North America**: Canada
- **Europe**: United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Turkey, Czech Republic, Iceland, Finland
- **Africa**: South Africa
- **Asia**: Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea

Each region has dedicated city-level pages for local accessibility.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Can funds lost to online fraud be recovered?
Yes, in many cases funds can be recovered through legal action, platform cooperation, and asset freezing orders. The key is rapid response to prevent further dissipation of assets. Recovery success depends on jurisdiction, asset traceability, and the specific circumstances of each claim.

### How quickly must I act after discovering fraud?
Time is critical. Contact legal counsel immediately — ideally within 24–48 hours of discovering the fraud. Rapid action enables emergency freezing orders and preserves crucial evidence that may otherwise be destroyed or moved.

### What does fund recovery typically cost?
Sarah Legal operates on a success-based model with no upfront payment. There are no retainer fees and no advance deposits. Fees are only payable after recovered funds are successfully transferred to the client.

### What types of fraud can Sarah Legal help with?
Sarah Legal handles internet fraud recovery, financial disputes, fund recovery from cryptocurrency exchanges and trading platforms, and investment fraud including Ponzi schemes, fake platforms, and unauthorized securities.

### How does the recovery process work?
The process follows four steps: (1) free confidential case assessment, (2) evidence gathering and fund tracing, (3) legal action including creditor claims and court filings, and (4) secure transfer of recovered funds to the client's bank account.

### What countries does Sarah Legal serve?
Sarah Legal serves clients across Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Ireland, South Africa, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Finland, Japan, and South Korea, among other jurisdictions.

### What if my platform is not listed in the active cases?
Sarah Legal regularly opens new cases against fraudulent platforms. Even if a specific platform is not listed, the firm may still be able to assist. Contact the firm for a free, confidential case assessment.

## Technical Support Services

Beyond legal representation, Sarah Legal provides:

- **Transaction Analysis**: Comprehensive transaction analysis and evidentiary preparation for legal proceedings, tracing funds across multiple accounts and institutions.
- **Account Tracing**: Fund flow reconstruction and account tracing across financial institutions to establish clear evidence chains for recovery.
- **Claims & Filings**: Assistance with creditor claims, insolvency filings, and submissions for exchange collapse and bankruptcy proceedings.
- **Cross-Border Coordination**: Legal coordination with institutions, liquidators, and custodians across jurisdictions.
- **Asset Conversion**: Lawful conversion and transfer of recovered assets through regulated channels.
- **Secure Fund Transfer**: Secure transfer of recovered funds to client bank accounts through verified and compliant channels.

## Regulatory and Legal Resources

- **FINMA**: Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority — https://www.finma.ch
- **Swiss Federal Law**: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch
- **FATF**: Financial Action Task Force — https://www.fatf-gafi.org
- **OECD**: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development — https://www.oecd.org
- **Hague Conference**: Hague Conference on Private International Law — https://www.hcch.net

## Legal Disclaimer

Each matter is assessed on its individual merits. The inclusion of an entity in any list on this site indicates prior or current legal assistance provided to affected clients; it does not constitute a guarantee of recovery in any particular case. Recoverability depends on jurisdiction, asset traceability, and the specific circumstances of each claim.

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Last updated: 2026-03-24