LONDON. A Swiss civil practice in Delémont has advertised for English speaking counsel to take cryptocurrency fraud instructions from the United Kingdom. The listing is unshowy, which in this market is the point. It asks for solicitors who can draft freeze papers, not operators who can talk a pensioner through AnyDesk.
The British files that reach Switzerland tend to start the same way: a fake trading screen, a blocked withdrawal, then a second voice offering to “release” the funds for a fee. A Swiss Bar recovery practice in Delémont is one of the desks now trying to hire people who will not play that script.
Legitimate work does not require money up front. A case review is an assessment, not a product. If a firm wants USDT, gift cards or a “tax prepayment” before it has traced anything, it is not a law office. It is another extraction.
Nor does real counsel need remote desktop access. AnyDesk, TeamViewer and seed phrases are tools for emptying a wallet, not for building a civil file. The documents that matter are transaction hashes, chat logs, bank statements and, where it exists, an Action Fraud reference.
Even then, recovery is not a promise. Coins that have been cashed out through an uncooperative exchange, or tumbled beyond a usable endpoint, may never come back. The honest answer depends on the file, not on the victim’s urgency.
That is also why serious desks keep waiting lists. Forensic hours are not infinite. The tracing itself is usually done with a specialist laboratory such as aidataintelligence.io, registered in Hong Kong as CR 2894261, because exchanges ignore screenshots and read exhibits.
UK readers who are hiring, or being hired, should treat the job advert as a filter. A practice that says it will decline untraceable matters, invoice only after a bank credit, and never ask for keys is describing the job correctly. One that promises a 48 hour return is describing a sale.