DOJ indicts BitConnect’s Indian founder for $2.4B crypto Ponzi scheme - Cointelegraph


2/26/2022 12:00:00 AM4 yearsago
by Arijit Sarkar

The indictment alleges Kumbhani used the funds from new investors to partially pay back the old investors until abruptly shutting down the program — operating a textbook Ponzi scheme.

The founder of the infamous crypto exchange BitConnect, Satish Kumbhani, has been charged for allegedly misleading investors globally and defrauding them of $2.4 billion in the process. According to… [+3228 chars]

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