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CFTC Seeks $429M Penalty Against Ponzi Operator Who Ghosted Them

Published 08/21/2020, 11:48 AM
Updated 08/21/2020, 01:20 PM
CFTC Seeks $429M Penalty Against Ponzi Operator Who Ghosted Them
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In the case of United Kingdom-based Control-Finance and its AWOL operator Benjamin Reynolds, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked the court to order Reynolds pay nearly half a billion dollars on Aug. 20.

In a legal action that began in June of last year, the CFTC has been unsuccessful in its attempts to locate Reynolds. The commission alleges that Reynolds laundered 22,858 Bitcoin from May to October of 2017 — by their estimates worth $147 million at the time, but as of press time valued at $269 million.

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