Man Jailed for Role in $25 Million Ponzi Scheme Involving a Failed Crypto
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Man Jailed for Role in $25 Million Ponzi Scheme Involving a Failed Crypto

THELOGICALINDIAN - A South Florida federal commune adjudicator has bedevilled Jose Angel Aman to 84 months in bastille for his role in perpetrating a 25 actor design Ponzi arrangement In accession the adjudicator ordered Aman to pay over 23 actor in amends to victims who invested in his design acid business and the declared diamondbacked crypto badge

Fraudulent Claims and Promises

In a statement, the U.S. Department of Amends (DOJ) says Aman and his bearding ally auspiciously recruited hundreds of bodies afterwards acceptable them “to advance in design contracts.” The account adds that the recruitment, which targeted American and Canadian citizens, occurred amid May 2014 and 2019.

Victims responding to the accused’s solicitations were told their money would be acclimated “to acquirement asperous coloured chunk for Aman to cut, brightness and resell at a profit.” Still, in adjustment to bolster the address of the business, the DOJ alleges that Aman and his ally resorted to lies. The DOJ account explains:

The DOJ asserts that the promises and statements were apocryphal because “Aman rarely acclimated investors’ money to purchase, cut, and resell asperous diamonds.” In addition, Aman did not accept a $25 actor design account as he claimed.

Still, in adjustment to burrow the artifice and accordingly sustain the Ponzi scheme, Aman “made declared absorption payments to absolute investors with money from new advance victims.” Next, the bluff and his ally assertive the aboriginal victims to cycle over their investments. According to the DOJ, this “tactic (was) acclimated to buy time until Aman could locate new investors and added money.”

The Diamond-Backed Crypto Token

However, back the Ponzi arrangement was about to collapse, Aman afflicted his action by ambience up a new aggregation accepted as Argyle Coin. This aggregation would be in “the business of developing a cryptocurrency badge backed by diamonds.” Detailing how Aman’s new tactic additionally failed, the DOJ account says:

The DOJ says Aman acclimated some of the investors’ funds to abutment “his abundant lifestyle.”

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