SEC Charges Skaparen av CoinDeal Scam och Seven Others

• SEC har anklagat Neil Chandran, Garry Davidson, Michael Glaspie, Amy Mossel, Linda Knott och relaterade företag för CoinDeal-bluffen.
• De påstådda bedragarna uppmanade folk att investera pengar i CoinDeal blockchain-teknik och samlade in $45 miljoner från densamma.
• Det utlovades att CoinDeal skulle säljas för biljoner dollar till rika individer men ingen försäljning inträffade.
• Chandran använde pengarna för att köpa bilar, fastigheter och en båt.

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Myndigheterna i USA har blivit allt mer skeptiska till kryptovalutor och digitala tillgångar, och det är tydligt från den senaste svärmen av anklagelser att Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) har regerat ner mot kryptoföretag och deras grundare. I ljuset av liknande händelser har värdepappersregulatorn åtalat grundaren av CoinDeal, tillsammans med sju andra, i samband med ett bedrägeri på $45 miljoner. 

Enligt a pressmeddelande 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.

Nyligen hamnade den populära kändisen Kim Kardashian också under hårkorset för SEC för marknadsföring av EthereumMAX (EMAX), ett enligt uppgift pump och dump kryptosystem. Dessutom har SEC och CFTC alltmer börjat slå ner på kryptoföretag, och de senare anklagade nyligen Adam Todd, grundare av kryptoterminer och spotmarknadsbörs Digitex, för flera brott mot Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).

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