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Apellate Court Permits Bitconnect Ponzi Scheme Victims To Proceed With A Class Action Lawsuit

The 11th Circuit Court of the Second Instance decreed that the Bitconnect Ponzi scheme’s victims can carry out a class action case by reversing a former decision that restricted such an action. Bitconnect is known as an ICO that grasped a lot of attention in 2017 but plummeted in 2018’s January. Appellate courts (or courts of the second instance) are superior courts utilized to review the formerly tried cases for the confirmation or possible reversion thereof.

The victims may currently put forward a class action lawsuit to confront BCC (BitConnect) as well as Craig Grant, Ryan Hildreth, Trevon James, Ryan Maasen, and Glenn Arcao (the promoters of the scheme). Up till now, no remarks have been made over if the complaints will ensue with the lawsuit. The initial complaint states that federal and state-level laws related to securities have been mocked by the promoters of the respective Ponzi scheme.

On 22nd February, Law360 noted that the accused respondents of the Ponzi lawsuit asserted that the respective project’s marketing was done utilizing online platforms of mass communication, thus they were beyond being held responsible for a securities scam. The defendants effectively debated that the only possibility for liability would include that a trader leads the purchasers by soliciting them.

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With the utilization of social media-based venues, the accused project advocates argued to have had not performed any direct solicitation of crypto to the purchasers. In this way, no securities scam can be leveled against them without such a direct solicitation. Nonetheless, the Circuit Court ascertained to reverse the decision of the lower court for accepting the respective argument as no standard before 1933’s Securities Act is available to protect the utility of online videos from being categorized under scam charges.

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In the words of Britt C. Grant (the judge over the case) – which were spoken on 18th February-based court panel – no free approval is provided by the Securities Act for online solicitations, thus the elimination of 12-based assertion on the behalf of the district court was reversed. An attorney of the initial lawsuit against the advocates of the BitConnect scheme, David Silver, shared a Twitter post on 19th February asserting that the respective decision is of great importance and will be remembered in the next years.

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In recent November, the DOJ (Department of Justice) mentioned having had determined to trade crypto holdings related to BitConnect (with a valuation of $56M) that were seized by it, as likely compensatory payment to be given to the victims.


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Mubashar Nawaz (United Arab Emirates)

Mubashar Nawaz is an experienced crypto writer working for Tokenhell. Having passion for writing, he covers news articles from blockchain to cryptocurrency.

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