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SFC obtains court orders to freeze bank accounts in suspected Pyramid and Ponzi scheme
March 22nd, 2017
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today obtained an interim order from the Court of First Instance to freeze approximately $2.66 million in the bank accounts of Mr Heriberto C. Perez Valdes in connection with a suspected Pyramid and ...
SEC charges two men for running a Ponzi scheme with money raised from investors
January 30th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against two New York City men accused of running a Ponzi scheme with money raised from investors to fund businesses purportedly created to purchase and resell tickets to such high-demand ...
A controversial Russian Ponzi scheme is betting on Bitcoin to relaunch in Nigeria
January 12th, 2017
A month after it suspended operations in Nigeria, Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox (MMM), a Russian Ponzi scheme with over 2 million participants in Africa’s most populous country, is already plotting its comeback. MMM claimed it had to temporarily close operations ...
Man arrested for an allegedly $300 million Forex Ponzi scheme scam
January 4th, 2017
The arrest of a man who allegedly peddled a $300 million (Dh1.1 billion) Ponzi scheme as a foreign currency trading programme has come as a ray of hope for residents, many of whom have lost their entire life’s savings ...
Former CBOE Member to pay $21.8 Million in a Ponzi Scheme
December 1st, 2016
CFTC Obtains $21.8 Million Default Judgment against Former CBOE Member Alvin Guy Wilkinson and his Connecticut-based Firms for Misappropriation of Customer Funds and Fraudulent Solicitation in Ponzi Scheme The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Virginia ...
Documents reveal BlackfortFX ponzi scheme scale
October 20th, 2016
Documents from the receivers and liquidators of Arena Capital, whose director Jimmie McNicholl has been charged with running a ponzi scheme, show it received more than $9 million from clients even though no forex trading was undertaken. In their ...
Israeli Man Charged With Operating FOREX Ponzi Scheme
August 4th, 2016
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that FADI EWIESS, a/k/a “Fadi ...
Investment adviser to plead guilty to running a $21 million Ponzi scheme
July 7th, 2016
A Rhode Island investment adviser has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for orchestrating a $21 million Ponzi scheme, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Aside from that scheme, Patrick E. Churchville, 47, also used ...
CFTC announced that individual and his companies ordered to pay nearly $17.5 Million for operating a Ponzi Scheme
July 6th, 2016
Garcia Sentenced to 78 Months in Prison and a Forfeiture of over $3 Million in a Parallel Criminal Case Federal Court Orders Nearly $17.5 Million in Sanctions against Naples, Florida Resident Dorian Garcia and his Companies for Solicitation Fraud, ...
UK: Three sentenced to 20 years for defrauding investors over £80m in Ponzi scheme
May 25th, 2016
Three men convicted of defrauding investors out of almost £80m ($116.4m, €104m) in a London-based Ponzi scheme to fund their lavish lifestyles have been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison. Forty-year-old Jolan Marc Saunders, Michael Dean Strubel, 54 ...
