Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky arrested for crypto fraud LeapRate

July 14, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky arrested for crypto fraud

Likewise, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) brought similar charges against the crypto lender and its founder. The CFTC asserted that Celsius and Mashinsky operated an extensive commodity pool scheme involving digital asset commodities. The derivatives regulator announced a settlement agreement with Celsius, which includes a court order permanently prohibiting the company from engaging in…

June 23, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC charges commodity pool operator with misappropriating over $21 million

The US regulator stated that Ichioka does not contest these claims. The CFTC is seeking full restitution to defrauded victims, a civil monetary penalty, and permanent trading and registration bans. Director of Enforcement Ian McGinley, said: The CFTC is committed to aggressively pursuing individuals who defraud public investors in digital assets and retail foreign currency…

June 06, 2023 BY Alan Sayer

Binance Claims SEC Charges are Aimed at Making Headlines - ‘Limited in Reach’

SEC Chair Gary Gensler said: Through thirteen charges, we allege that Zhao and Binance entities engaged in an extensive web of deception, conflicts of interest, lack of disclosure, and calculated evasion of the law." He adds that Zhao and Binance "misled investors" about risk controls and corrupted trading volumes while "actively concealing who was operating…

March 29, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Sam Bankman-Fried charged with bribing Chinese officials with $40 million

The accounts in question were unfrozen around the time of the payment and reportedly tens of millions of dollars-worth of cryptocurrencies were used to fund Alameda’s additional trading activity. Bankman-Fried already pleaded not guilty to eight counts of criminal charges and he hasn’t been yet arraigned on five others. FTX and Alameda collapsed in November…

March 28, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC charges Binance and its founder for operating an illegal digital asset derivatives exchange

The complaint alleges that Binance has offered and executed commodity derivatives transactions for US clients since July 2019. Moreover, the CFTC said that Binance directed its employees and customers to get around compliance controls detailing that they were encouraged to use messaging applications set to automatically delete written communication to avoid leaving evidence. The complaint…

January 13, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SEC brings charges against Genesis and Gemini for securities law violations

Furthermore, SEC highlighted that in November 2022, Genesis announced it will not allow its Gemini Earn investors to withdraw their crypto assets as it lacked sufficient liquid assets due to volatility in the crypto asset market. The US regulator claims that the Gemini Earn program is essentially an offer and sale of securities under applicable…

January 10, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC charges Mango Markets manipulator with fraud in a $110 million scheme

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…

January 05, 2023 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SEC charges CoinDeal Crypto Scheme creator in a $45 million fraud

According to SEC, CoinDeal was never sold and no distributions were made to its investors. Furthermore, the defendants misappropriated millions of dollars of investor funds for personal use. Chandran even used the investment funds t buy cars, real estate, and a boat. Daniel Gregus, Director of the SEC’s Chicago Regional Office, said: We allege the…

December 28, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

US investigates FTX hack and the stolen $370 million

FTX filed for bankruptcy in November following the quick collapse of the exchange after a liquidity crisis and a failed bailout by Binance. Bankman-Fried stepped down as a CEO after the string of events. The founder of the exchange was accused of "fraud of epic proportions" and is facing criminal charges for defrauding investors. Additionally,…

November 01, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA prosecutes individuals involved in binary options scheme Bespoke Markets Group

Additionally, Reuben Akpojaro, who worked at the Group, was also charged with the same offences in May 2022. The FCA also noted that further charges were brough against Raheel Mirza and a fifth individual, Taheer Sardar, for obstruction of FCA’s investigation. According to the Agency, the two men created false documents meant to influence the…

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