Crypto founder admits he cheated investors out of $25 million!... James Stanley から-フォローミートレーディングコミュニティ

17 Jun 2020, 14:30 · Views 422

The founder of a cryptocurrency firm admitted to conspiring to dupe investors into committing more than US$25 million to the enterprise by lying about an initial coin offering.

Robert Farkas and two other founders of Centra Tech Inc., Sohrab Sharma and Raymond Trapani, were charged in 2018 with misleading investors by claiming to have developed a debit card allowing users to make purchases with digital currency at any business accepting Visa or Mastercard.

Sharma and Trapani are scheduled to go to trial in November.

Farkas pleaded guilty on Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and wire fraud, appearing by phone before US Magistrate Judge James Cott.

He faced as much as a decade in prison under the charges, but under a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to seek a sentence of 70 to 87 months and a fine of as much as US$250,000.

They raised money rapidly with help from social media mentions by celebrities including boxing promoter Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled. They also lied in about having a Harvard-educated chief executive officer and other aspects of their business and failed to register the coin offering, the US alleged.

Reprinted from The Economic Times, all the copyrights reserved by the original author.

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