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  • Statement On Decision In Bench Trial Of Mark Heckele, Gurbir S. Grewal, SEC Director, Division Of Enforcement

    Date 30/06/2022

    After a 2-day bench trial, the Honorable Mark C. Scarsi in the Central District of California found Mark Heckele liable for securities fraud and illegally selling securities in unregistered offerings.

  • US Justice Department Announces Enforcement Action Charging Six Individuals With Cryptocurrency Fraud Offenses In Cases Involving Over $100 Million In Intended Losses

    Date 30/06/2022

    The Department of Justice, together with federal law enforcement partners, today announced criminal charges against six defendants in four separate cases for their alleged involvement in cryptocurrency-related fraud, including the largest known Non-Fungible Token (NFT) scheme charged to date, a fraudulent investment fund that purportedly traded on cryptocurrency exchanges, a global Ponzi scheme involving the sale of unregistered crypto securities, and a fraudulent initial coin offering.  

  • CFTC Charges Commodity Pool Operators And Florida Company With Fraudulently Solicitating Over $41.6 Million In A Commodity Pool Scheme

    Date 30/06/2022

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it has filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Emerson Pires and Flavio Goncalves, both Brazilian citizens who previously resided in Port Saint Lucie, Florida; Joshua Nicholas of Stuart, Florida; and Empires Consulting Corp., a Florida corporation. The complaint alleges the defendants fraudulently solicited, accepted, and pooled at least $41.6 million, including more than $14.3 million from individuals in the U.S., through commodity interest pools under the name EmpiresX. The complaint further alleges that Pires, Goncalves, and Empires Consulting misappropriated at least $5 million in pool participant funds.

  • Statement By The IMF Executive Board And Management On The Institutional Safeguards Review

    Date 30/06/2022

    Ensuring the highest standards of institutional governance and data and analytical integrity is paramount to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) ability to deliver on its mandate and its capacity to serve its member countries in an effective, evenhanded, and impartial manner. The IMF’s Executive Board is fully committed to maintaining these standards, and in concluding its review of the matters raised in the investigation of the 2018 World Bank’s Doing Business report in October 2021, the Executive Board noted that it had “confidence in the impartiality and analytical excellence of IMF staff and in the IMF’s robust and effective channels for complaint, dissent, and accountability”. The Board also noted that it would consider “possible additional steps to ensure the strength of institutional safeguards” in these areas. Accordingly, it launched a comprehensive review of the IMF’s institutional safeguards, with the aim of ensuring that the Fund’s systems reflect a robust governance structure which meets the highest standards.

  • Changes To BOX Rule 7170 Nullification And Adjustment Of Options Transactions Including Obvious Errors

    Date 30/06/2022

    Effective July 1, 2022, BOX Exchange, in coordination with all U.S. options exchanges, will update the existing harmonized Obvious Error rules and review procedures as outlined below: