Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from March, 2022

Curious case of TransferFriend and Herkki Valiste

 As mention in the previous post, in 2021 we suddenly get a surge of hits on this blog and some queries. We noted interest in TransferFriend and its founder, Herkki Valiste may have stem from a recent article that came out in an Estonian news site. Unfortunately the site is behind a paywall, but us employees decided to pay for the article and give some additional commentaries about this. Original article can be found here (behind a paywall) : https://ekspress.delfi.ee/artikkel/94051527/salaparane-idufirma-tombas-investoritele-ja-tipp-poliitikule-koti-pahe below is a google translation of the article. Translated content in black while former employees give their comments in red : Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, September 2017. Taavi Rõivas , Deputy Speaker of the Riigikogu and IT-friendly former Prime Minister, is on an infamous visit with the Estonian business delegation to Malaysia and Singapore, from which the so-called refrigerator scandal will later break out. Turns our ...