CFTC brings $1.7B fraud case involving Bitcoin against South African national - Cointelegraph

The CFTC said it had filed a civil enforcement action in U.S. federal court against a South African national for allegedly creating and operating a fraudulent global foreign currency commodity pool.

The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, has taken enforcement action against a South African national in what the regulatory body called its largest fraudulent scheme involvi… [+2012 chars]

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