United States crypto-focused law firm Silver Miller has filed a lawsuit against a purported crypto hedge fund manager who was allegedly operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme.
He reportedly offered investors in his scheme "Lucrative returns" that he claimed were generated by the series of crypto hedge funds he purported to be managing.
These hedge funds reportedly included an "Alts Fund," a "Long Term Fund," a "Managed entry" to an Initial Coin Offering - dubbed "Evermarkets ICO" - and "Coin Signals Mex Fund," the latter of which is the primary focus of the lawsuit.
In truth, the lawsuit contends, the returns were not profits from investments, but "Were simply reallocations to older investors of new investors' assets" in a classic Ponzi scheme configuration.
The CSM Fund, as per Silver Miller, was not registered as a hedge fund with any U.S. regulatory authority, and failed to adhere to any of the regulatory requirements a legitimate investment fund is compelled to follow.
At its height, the CSM Fund in particular is alleged to have held as much as 1,300 Bitcoin deposited by the scheme's investors - valued at the time at over $10 million.
When the CSM fund scheme started to fall apart in late 2018, Spence is alleged to have prevented the fund's participants from withdrawing their assets.
The lawsuit thus "Pleads that the Court rescind the investments in the fraudulent Coin Signals funds; return to the investors their cryptocurrency; impose a monetary penalty against Spence and his collaborators for their fraud, and impose a constructive trust over the assets collected by Spence."
As reported earlier this fall, a New York federal court ordered a crypto hedge fund and its CEO - who had reportedly solicited over $600,000 from at least 80 investors - to pay over $2.5 million for operating a fraudulent Ponzi scheme.
The order was pursuant to an anti-fraud enforcement action first filed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission against the fund last year.
Silver Miller Files Lawsuit Against Creator of Alleged Crypto Ponzi Scheme
gepubliceerd op Dec 27, 2018
by Cointele | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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