CFTC y FTC demandan al ex director ejecutivo de Voyager por fraude

• The CFTC claims that Ehrlich made several misleading statements about the safety of users’ assets.
• Tanto FTX como Binance.US tenían planes de comprar la participación de Voyager, pero los acuerdos no tuvieron éxito.
• The bankruptcy court approved Voyager’s repayment plans in May.

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The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Stephen Ehrlich, the former CEO of the now-defunct cryptocurrency lender Voyager Digital, on Thursday for deceiving the platform’s users about the security of their holdings. The CFTC also cargado Ehrlich con fraude y errores de registro por operar un consorcio de productos no registrados.

La agencia planea buscar prohibiciones permanentes de comercio y registro, devolución, restitución y sanciones monetarias civiles. La comisión escribió en un declaración on Thursday that “Ehrlich and Voyager falsely touted the Voyager platform as a “safe haven” to earn high-yield returns to induce customers to purchase and store digital asset commodities.”

Según el director de cumplimiento de la CFTC, Ian McGinley:

While representing that they would treat customers’ digital asset commodities safely and responsibly, behind the scenes, they took shockingly reckless risks with their customers’ assets, leading to Voyager’s bankruptcy and huge customer losses. When their business began to collapse, they continued lying to their customers, concealing Voyager’s true financial health.

In a parallel action, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had struck an agreement with Voyager “that will permanently ban it from handling consumers’ assets” and had sued Ehrlich for erroneously claiming that Voyager accounts were “safe” and insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The proposed settlement will see Voyager and its affiliate pay a $1.65 billion fee.

The charges claim that Ehrlich illegally transferred millions of dollars from Voyager to his wife, Francine, who was listed as a relief defendant in the FTC lawsuit. The focus of both lawsuits was Ehrlich’s misleading statements about Voyager’s financial situation in 2022.

Voyager fue una de las plataformas de préstamos criptográficos más destacadas antes de su colapso en el verano de 2022. En su apogeo, Voyager prometió a los clientes ganancias de hasta 12% sobre sus activos.

Voyager filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July 2022, citing unfavorable market conditions. The case remains unresolved as of this writing. However, the bankruptcy court approved Voyager’s repayment plan in May.

Los reguladores estadounidenses han tomado medidas coercitivas contra varias empresas de cifrado y sus fundadores. La CFTC y FTX tienen casos pendientes contra ejecutivos de criptomonedas como los ex directores ejecutivos de Celsius y FTX, Alex Mashinsky y Sam Bankman-Fried.

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