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Drop token sale: SEC alleges Dropil founders for defrauding investors in its token sale

US SEC files suit against Dropil founders for defrauding investors in its DROP token sale
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged in a Friday announcement that three California residents, Jeremy McAlpine, Patrick O’Hara, and Zachary Matar defrauded their investors by lying about the success of their DROP token sale. 

The SEC alleged that the three falsified financial information about Dropil and lied about the profitability of the DROP token to their investors. The investors were also misled by the three who drastically overstated the success of their token sale.  

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Dropil’s founders claimed that they had managed to raise 54 million US dollars through their token sale, while SEC alleges that the project had only raised 1.8 million dollars. Furthermore, the founders claimed that the project had been invested in by 34,000 global investors, hile SEC alleged that only 2,472 investors invested in the project.

The funds were raised In the first quarter of 2018 and were supposed to act as investments to the DROp token. Dropil team would manage the DROP token and would be multiplied via their algorithmic trading bot “Dex.” The funds would be distributed in DROP in 15-day increments.

However, the money raised by the investors never made it to the “Dex” trading bot. SEC alleged that the founders funneled 1.4 million dollars into their personal accounts. The founders then used bogus profitability reports whose credibility was bolstered by the expected DROP payments.

The SEC revealed that no record existed of Dex ever operating or generating any trading profits. The commission also stated that the DROP distributions were merely recycled tokens from Dropil’s reserve and post-ICO trade.

The SEC also revealed that the DROP token sale amounted to an unregistered ICO. Dropil is also accused of falsifying evidence and testimony during SEC’s investigation.

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Ahmad Asghar

A first generation gamer at heart and tech buff by nature, have been involved in the tech sector for better part of a decade. With that insight and knowledge, he now covers blockchain, cryptocurrency and everything fintech so others can make sense of the industry.

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