The Crypto platform Debiex was ordered to pay nearly $ 2.5 million after it failed to respond to a US trade commission suit that accused it of being a romance ring.
Arizona Federal Court Judge Douglas Rayes on March 13 granted The CFTC’s earlier movement for judgment in its case and ordered Debiex to pay around $ 2.26 million It stole it Its customers, along with a civil penalty of nearly $ 221,500.
Judge Rayes said there was no evidence that Debiex’s failure to respond to the CFTC was the result of “indescribable neglect.”
The CFTC Debiex is accused In January 2024, its staff said to run a so -called “pig killing” scamWhere they started romantic relationships with social media customers to gain confidence to convince them to invest on the platform.
The scheme has launched five victims depositing around $ 2.3 million across Debiex, stolen by the purported platform platform, the CFTC said.
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The CFTC also accused Zhāng Chéng yáng being a “mule mule” for Debiex, whose crypto wallets were used to accept and steal the victims’ funds.
Judge Rayes granted A CFTC’s movement for the default judgment against Zhāng on March 12, looking for it enough to say that he controlled a crypto purse with OKX “that received digital possession where he had no legitimate claim.”
He said OKX was “voluntary maintenance” of crypto in Zhāng’s account and ordered its contents, consisting of a $ 5.70 worth of Tether (USDT) and almost 63 ether (Eth) costs nearly $ 119,500, to move to an unnamed victim.
The CFTC said in a complaint in January 2024 that Debiex’s procedure saw unknown managers target potential victims by social media To attract them to websites it created marketing itself as a “Blockchain network decentralized the eternal contract trade platform” where users can perform futures trading and “mining transactions.”
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Debiex’s staff will show up as women and build a relationship with the victims through “continuous and repeated messaging and sharing purported pictures of themselves” while claiming “highly successful digital asset entrepreneurs,” the CFTC said.
When an account was created and customers sent their crypto, the CFTC said Debiex would share “fictional information” about customer balances, trading positions and income.
“All of this information is probably not true,” the CFTC said. “Evidence shows that the digital ownership of customers has only been sent to many digital assets in an attempt to obffuscate their destination.”
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