The CEO of Praetorian GroupInternational has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a global bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 90,000 investors of over $201 million. Deceptive Trading PromisesA U.S. judge has sentenced... .
A US court has sentenced the CEO of Bitcoin trading firm, Praetorian GroupInternational (PGI), to 20 years in prison after convicting him of operating a large-scale Ponzi scheme.
Instead of investing in bitcoin and foreign currency trading, as promised, Palafox used new investor funds to pay old ones and siphoned millions for personal use ... .
A federal judge sentenced PGI founder Ramil Palafox to 20 years in prison for running a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme that raised over $200 million from customers between 2019 and 2021 ... .