Ameriško SEC vloži prvo tožbo proti projektu Defi za goljufijo v višini 30 milijonov dolarjev

Ameriška komisija za vrednostne papirje in borzo (SEC) je zaračuna two Florida men, Gregory Keough, Derek Acree, and their Cayman Island company, Blockchain Credit Partners against unregistered offerings and sales of over $30 million through the Defi system and smart contracts. Additionally, the respondents are also accused of misleading investors concerning the operations and profitability of the Defu Money Market (DMM).

DMM zajamčene obresti in dobiček

The company executives were illegally offering two types of tokens, mToken and DMG, for an entire year, starting from February 2020 to February 2021, through the Defi Money Market (DMM). mToken offered  6.5 percent interest on the purchase of specified digital assets; it was also used to buy “real world” assets that generated income, like car loans. DMG, a governance token allowed voting right, the share of excess profit, profit from the resale in the secondary market. Both tokens guaranteed interest rates as well as profits through the Defi Money Market.

O SEC order points out that the interest and profit guarantees backed by the DMM system are fraudulent, concerning the high price volatilnosti of the digital assets, that were being used to accumulate and hold more tokens. Furthermore, the commission highlighted that the Defi project had insufficient generated income through its volatile digital assets, which in turn put the investors at risk of not getting back their promised returns.

Obtoženi vlagateljev niso le obvestili, ampak so to prikrili z manipulacijo procesa poslovanja podjetja. Ponarejali so tudi podatke o avtomobilskem posojilu in trdili, da je DMM kupil avtomobilska posojila, ki so jih prikazali na spletnem mestu. Medtem ko je bil obtoženi lastnik družbe za avtomobilska posojila, tj. Denarni trg Defi nikoli ni pridobil lastništva premoženja v resničnem svetu, ki je bilo zagotovljeno.

“The federal securities laws apply with equal force to age-old frauds wrapped in today’s latest technology,” je dejal Daniel Michael, unit chief of the SEC’s enforcement division.

Poravnava skoraj 13 milijonov dolarjev

SEC je vložila tožbo v skladu z oddelkoma 5 (a) in 5 (c) Zakona o vrednostnih papirjih iz leta 1933, ki so ga anketiranci kršili z neregistrirano prodajo obeh vrst digitalnih žetonov.

Komisija je vložila tudi tožene stranke v skladu z določbami o preprečevanju goljufij iz oddelka 17 (a) Zakona o vrednostnih papirjih in oddelka 10 (b) Zakona o borzi vrednostnih papirjev iz leta 1934 ter pravila 10b-5. Anketiranci so se strinjali s poravnavo in vrnili več kot 12.8 milijona dolarjev razprav in kazni po 125,000 dolarjev, ne da bi morali priznati krivdo.

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