سابقہ ​​OpenSea Exec پر NFT انسائیڈر ٹریڈنگ کا الزام ہے۔

The Department of Justice has indicted former OpenSea head of product Nathanial Chastain with insider trading in connection to NFTs in Manhattan federal court on Wednesday. Chastain was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.

کے مطابق to the indictment, Chastain was accused of buying dozens of NFT (non-fungible tokens) with the prior knowledge that the assets would be featured on the NFT marketplace. 

He then sold them at a profit two to five times the original purchase price using anonymous digital currency wallets and anonymous accounts on OpenSea.

رائٹرز رپورٹ کے مطابق that Chastain acquired up to 45 NFTs between June and September 2021.

US Attorney Damian Williams stated that “NFTs might be new, but this type of criminal scheme is not,” adding that Chastain’s “betrayal” and other insider trading crimes would be stamped out — “whether it occurs on the stock market or the blockchain.”

Chastain استعفی دے دیا from his position after being suspected of profiting from insider information in September 2021. His suspicious wallet activity on Etherscan was initially flagged by perceptive Twitter users.

OpenSea admitted that an employee used inside knowledge to outsmart the market, and the company’s CEO Devin Finzer publicly accepted Chastain’s resignation in a blog post. At the time, Finzer claimed that OpenSea put new rules in place to protect against this.

This case is being handled by the Office’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, with investigation aid from the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team.

Each of the charges carry a potential maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

ہر شام اپنے ان باکس میں دن کی سرفہرست کرپٹو خبریں اور بصیرتیں حاصل کریں۔ بلاک ورکس کے مفت نیوز لیٹر کو سبسکرائب کریں۔ اب.

پیغام سابقہ ​​OpenSea Exec پر NFT انسائیڈر ٹریڈنگ کا الزام ہے۔ پہلے شائع بلاک ورکس.

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• Source: https://blockworks.co/former-opensea-exec-charged-with-nft-insider-trading/