THELOGICALINDIAN - Riot Blockchain Inc NASDAQ RIOT a aggregation clearly focused on cryptocurrency mining and the development of an barter has apace replaced its CEO afterwards the SEC answerable him in affiliation to a counterfeit 27 actor pump an dump scheme
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$27 Million Pump and Dump Charges
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) answerable a accumulation of ten individuals on Friday for counterfeit schemes that generated over $27 actor from actionable banal sales and “caused cogent abuse to retail investors who were larboard captivation around abandoned stock.” According to the SEC’s complaint, the accumulation of “microcap fraudsters” was led by Barry Honig who was already Riot’s better actor and included John O’Rourke, its CEO.
Honig allegedly bought ample quantities of stocks at abrupt discounts, and afterwards accepting a abundant buying absorption in the companies, the accumulation affianced in actionable promotional action and artful trading to artificially pump the banal prices and actualize the actualization of alive trading volume. According to the complaint, they again dumped their shares, “reaping millions of dollars at the amount of biting investors.”
“As alleged, Honig and his assembly affianced in audacious bazaar abetment that avant-garde their banking interests while fleecing innocent investors and abrasive the candor of our balance markets,” said Sanjay Wadhwa, Senior Associate Director in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. “They bootless to appreciate, however, the SEC’s boldness to relentlessly accompany and abuse participants in microcap artifice schemes.”
Restructuring
On Saturday, Riot appear that Chris Ensey would be called its new CEO in affiliation with a “restructuring of the company’s chief executives.” The announcement, which didn’t acknowledgment the accuse adjoin the approachable CEO, explained that: “Mr. Ensey is accepted to abide to aggressively accompany the analysis of the company’s Riotx agenda bill barter beneath authorization from Coinsquare and broadcast opportunities for agenda asset and cryptocurrency businesses. The move follows the abandonment of John O’Rourke, the company’s Chairman and CEO.”
(UPDATE: Coinsquare no best has an acceding in abode with Riot to ability its exchange.)
If the name sounds familiar, this isn’t Riot’s aboriginal besom with controversy. Earlier this year the company was hit with a class activity lawsuit. Before October 2017, Riot was a biotechnology aggregation accepted as Bioptix, Inc. that specialized in the development of veterinary analytic tools. On October 4, Bioptix appear it was alteration its name to Riot Blockchain and alive its business focus to advance in blockchain technologies. It was accused that as a aftereffect of defendants’ apocryphal statements and omissions, the prices of Riot’s balance were artificially inflated.
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