Commission United States securities and exchange Commission (SEC) has accused a British citizen Renwick Haddow of creating fictitious bitcoin exchange, through which he swindled $5 million from investors who believed his promises about high returns. About it writes The Guardian.
Living now in new York Haddow promised investors a steady income and talked about the millions of sales. However, in reality, the company he founded Bitcoin Shop Inc. conducted no activities and did not bring profits. In parallel, Haddow promoted the activities of another company — coworking space Bar Works.
According to the edition, Haddow claimed that the management of both companies are highly qualified and experienced managers, however, all of these individuals simply did not exist.
Received from investors the funds were transferred to accounts in Mauritania and Morocco.
It is noteworthy that in the past Haddow had problems in the financial regulators of great Britain, where he was also accused of fraud investment schemes. Because of this, at home he is eight years had been deprived of the right to occupy leadership positions.
We will remind, earlier this week, the Federal court of Manhattan has sentenced to five and a half years in prison former operator of the closed by US authorities of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx Anthony Murgio.
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