The CFTC has charged two U.S. residents with running a multi-year $44 million crypto Ponzi scheme. cheyenneligon reports
with running a crypto Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded hundreds of investors out of a collective $44 million.
The defendants have also been charged with operating an illegal commodity pool and failing to register as a Commodity Pool Operator with the CFTC. Instead, the CFTC said, Ikkurty and Avadhanam pooled the investor funds and “distributed the majority of those funds as profits to other participants in a manner akin to a Ponzi scheme.”
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