JuicyFields
A purported medicinal-cannabis 'e-growing' investment platform that was in fact a Ponzi scheme. From 2020 to 2022 it took about €645M (~$688M) from ~186,000 investors with promises of 6–14% monthly returns, then froze withdrawals. Europol coordinated nine arrests in April 2024.
Also known as: JuicyFields, Juicy Holdings, juicyfields.io
Summary
JuicyFields (Juicy Holdings B.V.) marketed an "e-growing" scheme in which people paid from €50 to fund medicinal-cannabis plants and were promised a share of the profits, with advertised returns of roughly 6–14% per month. In reality, authorities say no cannabis was meaningfully grown and earlier investors were paid with later investors' money — a Ponzi scheme. [1][2]
Scale and outcome
Europol and Eurojust estimate around €645 million (~$688 million) was taken from about 186,000 contributing investors (over 500,000 registered) before the platform froze withdrawals and its operators disappeared in July 2022. On April 11, 2024, a Europol/Eurojust-coordinated operation across 11 countries led to nine arrests and dozens of searches, with assets seized. [1][2][3]
Bracketed numbers refer to the numbered sources listed below.
Sources (3)
See also
World Liberty Financial (WLFI) — Justin Sun token freezeProjectsWLFI, a DeFi project linked to Donald Trump and his family, blacklisted/froze the wallet of major investor Justin Sun in Sept 2025 — ~540–595M unlocked WLFI tokens (~$107M) plus ~2.4B locked. Sun sued, alleging an undisclosed admin 'blacklist backdoor'; WLFI denied it and threatened a countersuit. The dispute is ongoing.
Gala Games exploitTokensOn May 20, 2024 an attacker abused a privileged minter account on the GALA token contract to mint 5 billion GALA (≈$200M+ nominal) and dumped ~600M of them for ~$22M of ETH before Gala froze the address. Gala Games called it an internal access-control failure; the attacker later returned the ~$22M.
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