THELOGICALINDIAN - The balance administration of the US accompaniment of North Dakota has issued orders adjoin three companies announcement antecedent bread offerings in the accompaniment They are Bitconnect Magma Foundation and Pension Rewards The investigations are allotment of Operation Cryptosweep which involves over 40 US and Canadian balance regulators
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North Dakota’s Cease and Desist Orders
North Dakota Balance Commissioner Karen Tyler issued cease and abandon orders Wednesday adjoin three companies “promoting unregistered and potentially counterfeit balance in North Dakota in the anatomy of antecedent bread offerings (ICOs),” the state’s balance administration announced. The administration wrote:
The orders are the aftereffect of investigations by the department’s ICO assignment force set up to analyze “ICOs and cryptocurrency accompanying investments that affectation a accident to North Dakota investors,” the advertisement describes. “The accomplishment is additionally allotment of Operation Cryptosweep, a accommodating multi-jurisdiction analysis and administration accomplishment involving over 40 U.S. and Canadian balance regulators.” In August, the regulators appear that added than 200 crypto-related cases are actuality actively investigated, as news.Bitcoin.com ahead reported.
The advertisement explains that the three companies are not registered to action balance in the state. However, their websites, which accost investments for ICOs, are accessible to association of the state. In addition, they accommodate “unsubstantiated claims,” “misrepresentations,” or “several allegedly counterfeit representations.”
The Three Companies
Bitconnect, Bitconnect Ltd., and Bitconnect International Plc accept already been served orders by several states such as Colorado, North Carolina and Texas for “alleged unregistered action and fraud,” the abettor detailed, adding:
Magma Foundation, Magma Coin, and Magma are administering an ICO for MGM badge which is allegedly “backed by gold and/or ETFs,” the abettor noted. The Colorado Securities Division has already issued a cease and abandon adjustment to the company.
Pension Rewards Platform, aka Pension Rewards, is soliciting investors “for basic bill alleged ‘$pcoin’ or ‘pcoin’ which allows advance in and use of their belvedere to affix freelancers to accessible workforce opportunities.” The adjustment describes:
Additionally, the coin’s whitepaper “makes the counterfeit affirmation that due to the rapidly growing bazaar and acceptance of their platform, the bread amount will grow.” However, the abettor emphasized that the close does not “disclose actual banking and accident advice to abeyant investors, nor do they call the agency by which they will accommodate the promised acknowledgment on investments.”
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