The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is once again taking action against a co-founder of the PlexCoin cryptocurrency project, having previously sued him over securities violations and fraud in 2017.
Last December, Lacroix, the project’s other co-founder Sabrina Paradis-Royer and their firm PlexCorp, were sued for securities fraud and had their assets frozen in a similar emergency order.
Now, the SEC has obtained another court order following new evidence of illegal action on the part of Lacroix.
As previously reported by CoinDesk, PlexCorp was believed to have raised $15 million from thousands of investors through the ICO, of which the SEC said $810,000 was deposited with payment processor Stripe.
In today’s release, the SEC said it is also seeking an officer-and-director bar for Lacroix and a bar from offering digital securities against both Lacroix and Paradis-Royer.
While the countries are actively working on developing crypto regulations, XRP has faced its third class-action lawsuit for securities fraud. The third securities fraud lawsuit has been filed against Ripple in California by the lead plaintiff David Oconer who is a private XRP investor.
With crypto scams running rampant across the globe, Human Trust Protocol, aka Hub, is joining hands with Civic, a blockchain identification service provider, to verify users via know-your-client (KYC) data gathered from the Civic secure identity platform (SIP).
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has filed a lawsuit against Troy Richard James Hogg for selling unregistered securities in an ICO where he raised $51 million.
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Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein has told investors he is ready for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) regardless of what the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says.
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The Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says he doesn’t see cryptocurrencies lasting long.
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Wall Street investment bank Morgan Stanley holds a substantial sum of Bitcoin-related assets according to a filing with the U.S. SEC.
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In this series of articles, BeinCrypto explores the state of various cryptocurrency ETFs in the United States. This particular article will focus on the Kryptoin bitcoin ETF, which was first introduced in 2019.
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton will step down from his role by the end of 2020. Crypto-friendly Gary Gensler is among the rumored replacements. United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton will step down from his role by the year’s end.
How did Block.one make it out relatively unscathed by the SEC, and what are the greater ramifications of its ICO settlement?
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