SEC stämmer Justin Sun och Major Celebs: Allt du bör veta
- The SEC accused Tron founder Justin Sun of orchestrating the “unregistered offer and sale” of tokens and manipulative trading as well.
- Tillsynsmyndigheten hävdar att Sun fick kändisar som Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul och Akon att marknadsföra dem via deras sociala medieplattformar.
- The suit claims that Sun sold tokens via unregistered “bounty programs” that “directed interested parties to promote the tokens on social media.”
- Mellan april 2018 och februari 2019 handlade entreprenörstvätten mellan 4,5 miljoner och 7,4 miljoner TRX dagligen, enligt SEC.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has become increasingly strict when it comes to crypto promotion and offerings and has recently fined many celebrities, including Kim Kardashian, for the same. Interestingly, as per a recent press release, the regulator has sued the founder of Tron blockchain, Justin Sun, for the “orchestration of the unregistered offer and sale, manipulative trading, and unlawful touting of crypto asset securities.”
Enligt släpp, the SEC has filed a lawsuit against crypto entrepreneur Sun, who is the founder of the Tron Foundation, the BitTorrent Foundation, and Rainberry, in a District Court for the Southern District of New York, over the sale of cryptocurrencies Tron (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT). The regulator noted that Sun was involved in the sale of securities while adding that he engaged in “manipulative wash trading” as well.
För att öka allmänhetens intresse för dessa tokens hävdar SEC att Sun anlitat kändisar för att marknadsföra dem via deras sociala medieplattformar. Det är viktigt att notera att de kändisar som anlitades för att marknadsföra TRX och BTT inkluderar den amerikanske rapparen DeAndre Cortez Way, även känd som Soulja Boy; Austin Mahone; skådespelerskan Lindsay Lohan; YouTuber Jake Paul; och sångerskan Aliaune Thiam, även känd som Akon.
Andra kändisar som nämns i rättegången inkluderar pornografisk filmskådespelare Michele Mason, även känd som Kendra Lust; rapparen Miles Parks McCollum, mer känd som Lil Yachty; och konstnären Shaffer Smith, även känd som Ne-Yo.
“As alleged, Sun and his companies not only targeted U.S. investors in their unregistered offers and sales, generating millions in illegal proceeds at the expense of investors, but they also coordinated wash trading on an unregistered trading platform to create the misleading appearance of active trading in TRX. Sun further induced investors to purchase TRX and BTT by orchestrating a promotional campaign in which he and his celebrity promoters hid the fact that the celebrities were paid for their tweets,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
According to the release, the SEC alleges that Sun sold BTT and TRX via many unregistered “bounty programs” that “directed interested parties to promote the tokens on social media, join and recruit others to Tron-affiliated Telegram and Discord channels, and create BitTorrent accounts in exchange for TRX and BTT distributions.”
The regulator also alleges that Sun, the BitTorrent Foundation, and Rainberry airdropped tokens to the wallets of many investors in the US and did not register these assets as securities with the SEC. Additionally, the agency also accused Sun of violating “the antifraud and market manipulation provisions of the federal securities laws by orchestrating a scheme to artificially inflate the apparent trading volume of TRX in the secondary market.”
Intressant nog hävdar regulatorn att Sun, åtminstone mellan april 2018 och februari 2019, uppmanade sina anställda att engagera sig i mer än 600 000 tvättaffärer av TRX mellan konton för två kryptotillgångsbörser som han kontrollerade. Det är viktigt att notera att enligt SEC tvättade entreprenören mellan 4,5 miljoner och 7,4 miljoner TRX-tvättar som handlades dagligen.
The release claims that “Sun also sold TRX into the secondary market, generating proceeds of $31 million from illegal, unregistered offers and sales of the token.” The SEC confirmed that except Cortez Way and Mahone, the other celebrities “agreed to pay a total of more than $400,000 in disgorgement, interest, and penalties to settle the charges, without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings.”
Som rapporterats tidigare av Bitnation, föreslog Gensler nyligen att alla PoS kryptotokens kan betraktas som värdepapper and contradicted CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam’s statement when he said that stablecoins and Ether (ETH) are not securities.
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