Shareholders of Blockchain Messenger Ltd have decided to dismiss the CEO of the company in connection with the claim of one of the owners against him to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Former CEO Kent Kristensen has used the MessengerBank trademark owned by Blockchain Messenger Ltd (Telegraf Money Messenger) without proper authorization in the United States registering companies on his own name in various jurisdictions. While exploiting the company’s brand name in promotion materials, Kristensen claimed that he had made deals worth of hundreds of millions of US dollars.
In correspondence with other owners of the company, he notified them that he had collected $ 650 million using the MessengerBank brand, and that this brand now belongs to him. This initiative has never been discussed with other shareholders before.
Kristensen has registered the website Messengerbank.io under his own name and has published the information about the first issue of bonds backed by crypto-active assets worth EUR 250 million through the intermediary of the Swedish trust company Landes and Compagnie Trust Privé KB.
Shareholders do not have specific information about how the money was raised, where they were placed, who plans to manage them and how.
One of the shareholders has filed a claim against Kristensen to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the October the 3rd. He emphasized that Blockchain Messenger Ltd company has nothing to do with transactions on behalf of MessengerBank for the funds indicated in Kristensen’s messages. The shareholder asked to freeze temporarily any accounts associated with the MessengerBank and the former CEO of the company.
An official notice to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is being prepared on behalf of Blockchain Messenger Ltd . After filing company reserves the right file a case with court to get compensation for reputation and material damage resulting from the misuse of the MessengerBank brand by Kent Kristensen, as well as against any legal or physical persons involved in deals involving this trade name.
The claims will be filed in the London court at the place of registration of the company, as well as in the courts of any jurisdiction where the trade name of the company was used without authorization.
P.S. In addition, it became known that businessman Kent Kristensen served his sentence in prison in Romania for fraud and did not inform other shareholders and partners of the company, and also hid this information from investors.
Blockchain Messenger Ltd.
20-22 Wenlock Road
London
N1 7GU
United Kingdom