THELOGICALINDIAN - Three US agencies accept taken activity adjoin all-embracing bitcoinfunded balance banker 1pool Ltd aka 1Broker The Balance and Exchange Commission SEC says 1Broker abandoned federal balance laws The Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC says it abandoned the Commodity Exchange Act Meanwhile the aggregation says it is alive on absolution barter abjure their funds
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SEC’s Action
The SEC appear Thursday that it has filed accuse adjoin Marshall Islands-registered 1pool Ltd., aka 1Broker, and its Austria-based CEO, Patrick Brunner, “for allegedly actionable the federal balance laws in affiliation with security-based swaps adjourned with bitcoins.” The bureau explained:
The SEC alleges that an clandestine appropriate abettor with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) “successfully purchased several security-based swaps on 1Broker’s belvedere from the U.S. admitting not affair the arbitrary advance thresholds appropriate by the federal balance laws.” The agency added alleges that Brunner and 1Broker bootless to transact these swaps “on a registered civic exchange, and bootless to appropriately annals as a security-based swaps dealer.”
The SEC’s complaint “seeks abiding injunctions, disgorgement additional interest, and penalties.”
CFTC’s Action
On the aforementioned day, the CFTC filed a civilian administration activity adjoin 1pool Ltd. and Brunner, stating:
From at atomic February 2016, the defendants “offered or affianced in actionable retail article affairs in the anatomy of ‘contracts for difference’ (CFDs) that had as basal assets commodities,” the CFTC alleges. However, these affairs are not conducted in accordance with the Article Exchange Act (CEA).
The bureau detailed:
FBI’s Action
Also on Thursday, the FBI bedeviled the 1Broker.com domain. A apprehension on the agency’s website states three violations: money laundering, “willfully operating as an unregistered broker/dealer of securities,” and “willfully operating as an unregistered futures agency merchant.” An FBI access apprehension now appears on the 1Broker.com website.
1Broker’s Response
Responding to the SEC’s announcement, 1Broker tweeted:
The aggregation antiseptic that the aloft account “also applies to non-US customers.” 1Broker added tweeted, “All accessible positions were bankrupt at the accepted bazaar prices. Bazaar amount movements will not affect your trades from now on,” noting, “Our top antecedence now is to get the permission from the SEC to action chump abandonment requests on an another domain.”
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