La SEC accuse le créateur de CoinDeal Scam et sept autres

• La SEC a accusé Neil Chandran, Garry Davidson, Michael Glaspie, Amy Mossel, Linda Knott et des sociétés apparentées pour l'escroquerie CoinDeal.
• Les escrocs présumés ont approché les gens pour investir de l'argent dans la technologie de blockchain CoinDeal et ont collecté $45 millions à partir de la même chose.
• Il a été promis que CoinDeal serait vendu pour des billions de dollars à des particuliers fortunés, mais aucune vente n'a eu lieu.
• Chandran a utilisé l'argent pour acheter des voitures, des biens immobiliers et un bateau.

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Les autorités américaines sont devenues de plus en plus sceptiques à l'égard des crypto-monnaies et des actifs numériques, et il ressort clairement de la récente nuée d'accusations que la Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a régné sur les entreprises de cryptographie et leurs fondateurs. À la lumière d'événements similaires, le régulateur des valeurs mobilières a inculpé le fondateur de CoinDeal, ainsi que sept autres personnes, pour une fraude de $45 millions. 

Selon un communiqué de presse from the SEC, the regulator charged Neil Chandran, Garry Davidson, Michael Glaspie, Amy Mossel, Linda Knott, AEO Publishing Inc., Banner Co-Op, Inc., and BannersGo, LLC, for their alleged “involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme named CoinDeal that raised more than $45 million from sales of unregistered securities to tens of thousands of investors worldwide.”

“We allege the defendants falsely claimed access to valuable blockchain technology and that the imminent sale of the technology would generate investment returns of more than 500,000 times for investors,” said Daniel Gregus, Director of the SEC’s Chicago Regional Office. “As alleged in our complaint, in reality this was all just an elaborate scheme where the defendants enriched themselves while defrauding tens of thousands of retail investors.”

As per the SEC’s complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the people involved in the scam, Chandran, Davidson, Glaspie, Knott, and Mossel, made false claims about the potential of investment in blockchain technology, CoinDeal, to investors and promised people that the technology will be sold to wealthy people for trillions of dollars. However, this wasn’t the case. 

No sale of CoinDeal ever occurred while Chandran, Davidson, Glaspie, Knott, and Mossel “disseminated false and misleading statements to investors regarding the purported value of CoinDeal, the parties involved in the supposed sale of CoinDeal, and the use of investment proceeds” between January 2019 to 2022

The SEC also believes that together, the people involved in the CoinDeal scheme successfully “misappropriated millions of dollars of investor funds for personal use,” and reportedly, Chandran had purchased cars, real estate, and a boat using the same. It is also crucial to note that in June 2022, Chandran was indicted by the DoJ in the US District Court for the District of Nebraska “on three counts of wire fraud and two counts of monetary transactions in unlawful proceeds for his involvement in CoinDeal.”

“The SEC’s complaint seeks disgorgement plus pre-judgment interest, penalties, and permanent injunctions against all defendants; officer and director bars against Chandran, Davidson, Glaspie, Knott, and Mossel; and a conduct-based injunction against Chandran,” the statement read further.

Récemment, la célébrité populaire Kim Kardashian, est également passée sous le collimateur de la SEC pour la Promotion d'EthereumMAX (EMAX), un système de cryptage censé pomper et vider. De plus, la SEC et la CFTC ont de plus en plus commencé à sévir contre les entreprises de cryptographie, et cette dernière a récemment accusé Adam Todd, fondateur de crypto à terme et d'échange de marché au comptant Digitex, pour plusieurs violations de la loi sur les échanges de marchandises (CEA).

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