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요약:The SEC charges 17 individuals in a massive $300 million Ponzi scheme involving CryptoFX, affecting over 40,000 investors, mainly from the Latino community. Promising high returns from cryptocurrency investments, the scheme operated across 11 states and two countries, failing to invest as promised.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially charged 17 people with running a Ponzi scheme via CryptoFX, a firm suspected of defrauding over 40,000 investors out of $300 million. The fraud targets Latino investors by offering huge returns on cryptocurrency investments and other assets. Despite involving two nationalities and eleven states, the SEC asserts that the promised distribution of investments did not occur.
In a prior settlement with the SEC, two participants in the scheme consented to the terms but neither admitted nor contested the allegations. Presently, accusations are pending against the remaining defendants for their participation in the deceptive activities.
CryptoFX has come under scrutiny for purportedly luring investors with assurances of financial independence and 15% to 100% returns through cryptocurrency and foreign exchange trading.
However, an SEC inquiry found that most money was not for trading. The cash seemed to sustain the defendants' lavish lives and pay scheme members rewards and incentives. A specific allegation holds that the defendant purchased a residence in Texas for $1 million using misappropriated investor funds.
Gurbir Grewal, the SEC Enforcement Director, underscored the scheme's widespread effect, citing the thousands of victims impacted in different states and countries. He stressed that the SEC wants to prosecute all parties who participated in the criminal conduct, not only the scheme's architects.
The SEC's measures follow a prior emergency motion filed against CryptoFX's key executives, Mauricio Chavez and Giorgio Benvenuto, in late 2022. Following the court's orders to halt the fraudulent activities, two defendants, Gabriel and Dulce Ochoa, reportedly continued to solicit investments. Gabriel Ochoa is said to have tried to push investors into dropping their SEC complaints.
In addition to taking a strong stand against fraudulent investment schemes and the exploitation of investors looking to take advantage of opportunities in digital assets, the SEC has taken a significant step in addressing and destroying one of the largest Ponzi schemes aimed at the cryptocurrency sector with this legal action.
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