US SEC Re-Opens Infamous Bitcoin Scammer Case
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US SEC Re-Opens Infamous Bitcoin Scammer Case

THELOGICALINDIAN - According to contempo abstracts the United States Securities and Exchange Commission SEC believes that the case adjoin the consecutive Ponzi bluff Renwick Haddow has yet to be appropriately solved

The United States SEC does not arise to be annoyed with the New York Southern District Court judge’s accommodation apropos the case adjoin Renwick Haddow. Judge Lorna G. Schofield ordered the cease of the case, which the SEC initially brought adjoin the broadly acclaimed scammer.

According to the latest report however, the regulator is now gluttonous to re-open the case, claiming that there are still several affairs to be solved, decidedly back it comes to budgetary penalties that the United States SEC wishes to see imposed on the Ponzi fraudster.

Haddow’s Shady Schemes

Haddow is accepted for a number of aerial contour schemes, but his US-based hot-desking business accepted as Bar Works is acceptable the best-known one. The arrangement about awash affected investments in bare restaurants and confined beyond several American cities, including NYC and San Francisco. However, he additionally had a acting appointment in Istanbul.

He scammed over 100 UAE investors, who claimed to accept absent millions of dirhams in this accurate scheme.

His added big scams complex against a accumulated arrangement accepted as the ‘Capital Organization,’ which consisted of 30 carapace companies amenable for conning investors out of a absolute of $180 million, according to a 2015 World Policy report . And additionally his alleged Bitcoin Store Inc and 7th Avenue companies, which he acclimated to abduct $37 million from biting investors amid 2015-17.

The SEC wants budgetary relief

The SEC initially brought the case adjoin Haddow due to several of his counterfeit operations. Following the court’s accommodation that the case should be closed, the SEC beatific belletrist and requests to Judge Lorna G. Schofield, requesting that the cloister re-opens the case. The SEC complaint is that the cloister has yet to boldness the affair of monetary penalties.

The regulator additionally anticipates that two scenarios ability be accessible already Haddow is sentenced. The aboriginal one will see the parties ability a budgetary abatement settlement, while the added will advance the regulator to accomplish a motion to seek budgetary abatement on its own.

For now, Haddow charcoal assuredly restrained, as per the accord judgment. He is additionally banned to use any civic balance exchange, as able-bodied as any action of artery commerce. Simply put, the acumen will see him absolutely cut off from aegis trades.

This accommodation was brought to stop him from administering addition scheme, mislead others, or appoint in any convenance of business that ability aftereffect in a new fraud.

Earlier this year, in May, Haddow (who additionally goes by the alias Jonathan Black) accepted that he was complex in schemes apropos Bar Works and Bitcoin Store Inc. However, Haddow was originally answerable two years prior, in June 2024.

He was additionally extradited from Morocco about a year later, in April 2024. At the time, he was additionally answerable with wire fraud, as able-bodied as cabal to accomplish wire fraud, to which he pleaded guilty.

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