Search Results for: Fraud
Operator of shuttered bitcoin exchange pleaded guilty in defrauding investors charges
July 24th, 2018
The operator of a shuttered bitcoin-denominated exchange pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges that he defrauded investors and lied to US securities regulators investigating the theft by hackers of virtual currency now worth about US$46 million. Jon Montroll, ...
International fight against tax fraud steps up a gear
July 5th, 2018
The UK, Canada, the Netherlands, the United States and Australia have launched an international tax and anti-money laundering team. The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) body will build on existing international cooperation by sharing intelligence and expertise, ...
Operator of commodity trading fund charged with defrauding fund participants
July 3rd, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging Defendant Harris Bruce Landgarten of Old Brookville, New York, with defrauding participants in ...
U.S. court fined company for fraud in a commodity futures day-trading system
June 27th, 2018
Federal Court orders Jody Dupont of Anderson, South Carolina, and his company, Open Range Trading LLC, to pay $192,000 for defrauding customers in connection with offering and selling futures trading system. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that ...
Omega Knight 2 and two individuals charged with $5.5 Million precious metals fraud
June 14th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Defendants Omega Knight 2, LLC (Omega Knight), its owner and president, Aviv Michael Hen (Aviv Hen) ...
Hotmail founder: cryptocurrencies are fraudulent
June 11th, 2018
The founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, has issued a stark warning for cryptocurrency investors. Speaking to Arabian Business, the 49-year-old from Chandigarh in north-west India, who founded and then sold dotcom success story Hotmail in the late 1990s, said ...
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 ...
SEC USA released a Public Statement by Chairman Jay Clayton on fraudulent Crypto ICOs
May 23rd, 2018
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has released a Public Statement by Chairman Jay Clayton in relation to the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announcement of enforcement sweep targeting fraudulent ICOs and Crypto-asset investment products. According the Public ...
‘HoweyCoin’: SEC trolls Crypto fraudsters with fake ICO campaign
May 17th, 2018
‘In a landmark embrace of technological innovation, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will issue its own cryptocurrency – HoweyCoin – through an initial coin offering (ICO). Okay, that’s not actually true, but the ...
USA Regulator ordered a penalty of more than $2.2 million for Forex fraud scheme
May 14th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Esther Salas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has entered an Order of default judgment and permanent injunction against Alcibiades Cifuentes (Cifuentes) and Jennifer Wee ...
