Additionally, between October 2020 and May 2022, at least 43 p[ool participants transferred around $470,780 to Yas Castellum LLC to participate in its supposed commodity pool after misrepresented historical trading records or how their funds were going to handled and traded. Furthermore, Brisco and Yas Castellum LLC, assisted by Sims, transferred the funds to entities…
Read more
The CFTC says the defendants' representations were false because Vista never traded customer assets and did not even have a trading program capable of generating the promised returns. CFTC Acting Director of Enforcement Gretchen Lowe commented: This action demonstrates our ongoing commitment to use the tools at our disposal to hold bad actors accountable in…
Read more
Acting Director of Enforcement Gretchen Lowe, said: The CFTC will use all available enforcement tools to aggressively pursue fraud and manipulation regardless of the technology that is utilized. The CEA prohibits deception and swap manipulation, whether on a registered swap execution facility or on a decentralized blockchain-based trading platform.” The scheme According to the official…
Read more
The CFTC stated that one of CHS Hedging’s customers engaged in speculative trading that sustained millions of dollars in losses in their company account from January 2017 through December 2020. The customer and their company made margin payments of more than $147 million to CHS Hedging over the course of that period. The CFTC found…
Read more
CFTC’s complaint alleges during a period of low market liquidity in late December 2017, Phillips manipulated the USD/ZAR exchange rate on two occasions by driving it down to levels that would trigger payouts on the option contracts. According to the official announcement Phillips orchestrated trading of massive amounts of the USD/ZAR currency pair in the…
Read more
Spence pleaded guilty earlier this year in a fraud case for soliciting individuals to invest in digital assets including bitcoin and ether from December 2017 through April 2019. During this period, Spence fraudulently solicited and obtained over $5 million of digital assets such as bitcoin and ether from 175 user accounts. Earlier in May, Spence…
Read more
The scheme According to the CFTC, the fraudulent scheme began in August 2014 when Hewko and MPC began seeking investments into a pooled investment vehicle operated by MPC and marketed to prospective investors as the Global Opportunity Fund (Fund). The regulator detailed that over $1.1 million were collected from the investors from September 2014 to…
Read more
The forex scheme According to the CFTC, the fraudulent scheme ran from October 2019 to June 2021. The operators used different websites and social media platforms to advertise their forex trading pool “The Black Club” and “The Forex Savings Club.” They were marketed as a version of a savings account that offered a greater yield…
Read more
According to the CFTc, this protocol purported to offer users the ability to engage in these transactions in a decentralized environment. The regulator determined these transactions unlawful as they were required to take place on a designated contract market, but they did not. Additionally, the complaint stated that bZeroX illegally operated as an unregistered FCM.…
Read more
Instead of investing the funds he received from the pool participants, Caniff used the money to pay himself $1.2 million and Bos $1.1 million. Caniff sent false treading results to Bos who reported false profits and exaggerated pool values to the investors. The statement said: The order finds that Bos committed fraud by ignoring numerous…
Read more