For reportedly running a price adjustment scheme, Hydrogen Technology Corp. and its former CEO may spend$ 2.8 million in fines and treatments.
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A$ 2.8 million transactions has brought an end to a seven-month legal dispute between the US assets regulation and an organization accused of manipulating the price of cryptocurrencies.
The Securities and Exchange Commission( SEC ) filed a lawsuit against Hydrogen Technology Corporation and its former CEO Michael Ross Kane on April 20 and ordered them to pay$ 2.8 million in civil penalties and remedies.
The amount includes a penalty of more than$ 1 million as well as roughly$ 1.5 million in disgorged profits, which refer to gains from illegal behavior.
Michael Kane, the CEO of Hydrogen, also consented to pay a$ 260,000 fine per person. Prejudicement desire makes up the remaining sum.
The SEC filed its complaint in September 2022, claiming that Kane used Moonwalkers Trading Limited, an ERC-20 token manufacturer, to carry out a scheme that manipulated the volume and price of Hydro ( HYDRO ).
Following the submission of Hydrogens Hydro tokens through airdrops, reward programs, and direct-to-market sales in 2018, the SEC asserted that Kane and Moonwalkers CEO Tyler Ostern worked to give the impression that there was a strong market task.
For unregulated offers, sales, and handling of crypto asset securities known as Hydro, we filed charges against The Hydrogen Technology Corporation, Michael Ross Kane, its previous CEO, as well as Tyler Ostern, CEO of Moonwalkers Trading Limited.
30 September 2022, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SECGov )
The tokens were sold by Ostern in a market that was artificially inflated and made Hydrogen more than$ 2 million in profit, according to the SECs complaint.
Ostern agreed to settle the case for$ 41, 000 the day after the complaint was filed.
Both Hydrogen and Kane are just constrained by the terms of the agreement, which prevents them from rebutting the SEC's's accusations against them.
Until the Hydro currencies have passed the Howey study and received additional SEC agreement, Kane and the company are not allowed to sell any more cryptocurrencies.
Kane is now allowed to trade and market crypto assets for personal gain in the larger bitcoin market.
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