SEC klaagt maker van CoinDeal Scam en zeven anderen aan

• De SEC heeft Neil Chandran, Garry Davidson, Michael Glaspie, Amy Mossel, Linda Knott en aanverwante bedrijven aangeklaagd voor de CoinDeal-zwendel.
• De vermeende oplichters benaderden mensen om geld te investeren in CoinDeal blockchain-technologie en haalden daarmee $45 miljoen op.
• Er was beloofd dat CoinDeal voor biljoenen dollars zou worden verkocht aan vermogende particulieren, maar er vond geen verkoop plaats.
• Chandran gebruikte het geld om auto's, onroerend goed en een boot te kopen.

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De autoriteiten in de Verenigde Staten zijn steeds sceptischer geworden over cryptocurrencies en digitale activa, en het is duidelijk uit de recente zwerm aanklachten dat de Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) heeft geregeerd op cryptobedrijven en hun oprichters. In het licht van soortgelijke gebeurtenissen heeft de effectentoezichthouder de oprichter van CoinDeal, samen met zeven anderen, aangeklaagd in verband met fraude van $45 miljoen. 

Volgens een persbericht 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.

Onlangs kwam de populaire beroemdheid Kim Kardashian ook onder het vizier van de SEC voor de promotie van EthereumMAX (EMAX), een naar verluidt pump and dump crypto-schema. Bovendien zijn de SEC en CFTC in toenemende mate begonnen met het hardhandig aanpakken van cryptobedrijven, en laatstgenoemde heeft onlangs Adam Todd, oprichter van cryptofutures en spotmarktbeurs Digitex, aangeklaagd voor meerdere overtredingen van de Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).

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