Crypto News – Under the pretense of the cryptocurrency trading platform CryptoFX, the SEC has accused 17 people of organizing a $300 million Ponzi scam.
CryptoFX Ponzi Scam: SEC Charges 17 People in This Case
The SEC filed an emergency action to shut down CryptoFX in September 2022 because they believed it to be a running Ponzi scheme using crypto assets. The SEC named 17 people who were allegedly part of the fraud on March 14, which was around eighteen months later.
We allege that CryptoFX was a $300 million Ponzi scheme that targeted Latino investors with promises of financial freedom and life-altering wealth from ‘risk free’ and ‘guaranteed’ crypto and foreign exchange instruments.
Gurbir S. Grewal, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement
What Does the SEC Demand from the Court?
The SEC claims that CryptoFX purportedly targeted Latino cryptocurrency investors in ten US states as well as two other nations. According to Grewal, a Ponzi scheme of this size needs a lot of participants, and the SEC has charged the main organizers and those who carried out the plan.
The SEC discovered that a number of people connected to CryptoFX had stolen money from investors by making exaggerated claims about investments in potentially profitable cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The Securities and Exchange Act was violated by the people, and the SEC asked the court to charge them. The 17 people are also required by the SEC to “disgorge,” or return, the money and pay extra civil fines for the infractions.
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