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$125 million offering fraud; ongoing international trading program
September 20th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has filed an emergency action and obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against three individuals and three entities in connection with an alleged fraudulent, ongoing international trading program ...
Binary Options trading firm and its principals charged with $4.8 million fraud scheme
May 9th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform about the filing of a civil enforcement action (Complaint) against William Thomas Caniff of Steubenville, Ohio, Arie Bos, of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, their company, Berkley Capital ...
This country draws Japanese Bitcoin miners seeking profit
January 16th, 2019
A combination of cheap electricity and cold weather has started to draw a growing number of Japanese bitcoin miners to Mongolia, a country sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north. Amid falling mining revenues in ...
New wave of FX manipulation lawsuits
November 16th, 2018
A group of large institutional investor plaintiffs filed a lawsuit on 07 November, in the US District Court in Manhattan, in a action linked to proce rigging in the FX markets. Amongst the several named plaintiffs are BlackRock Inc, ...
Former virtual currency trader fined over a million for Bitcoin and Litecoin fraud
November 12th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and settling charges against Joseph Kim (Kim), of Phoenix, Arizona, requiring Kim to pay more than $1.1 million for a fraudulent Bitcoin and Litecoin scheme. In the order, Kim ...
Emergency action filed against a Swiss-based company for microcap fraud scheme
October 9th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an emergency action and obtained an asset freeze against two individuals and their companies in a scheme that generated more than $165 million of illegal sales of stock in at least 50 ...
Individuals and entities charged in global retail binary options fraud
September 28th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it filed two complaints in federal district courts in Florida against four individuals and three entities and issued seven administrative Orders filing and simultaneously settling charges against seven individuals and two ...
SEC shuts down a $345 million Ponzi-like scheme
September 24th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it has obtained a court order halting an ongoing Ponzi-like scheme that raised more than $345 million from over 230 investors across the U.S. The SEC also obtained an emergency asset freeze and ...
Emergency Order halting fraudulent Initial Coin Offering scheme that raised $21 million
May 30th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it has obtained a court order halting an ongoing fraud involving an initial coin offering (ICO) that raised as much as $21 million from investors in and outside the U.S. The court also ...
$85 million ponzi scheme shuts down
May 3rd, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the unsealing of fraud charges against a Mississippi company and its principal who allegedly bilked at least 150 investors in an $85 million Ponzi scheme. The defendants agreed to permanent injunctions, an asset ...
