SEC Moves Receives Permission to Move Against Alleged 'PlexCoin' Scammers

The United States SEC has gotten permission from the New York Eastern District Court to take action against Dominic Lacroix, a man who has been implicated as one of the individuals behind the alleged $15 million PlexCoin scam.

Lacroix and his accomplice, Sabrina Paradis-Royer, reportedly managed to rake in their millions by selling ICO tokens with eye-popping promises of returns.

The legal battle against these two has already been in the works for several months, and the US government wasn’t the first to come after the pair. Cryptovest reported that the two had been ordered by a Canadian court to cease and desist. To be fair, they did shut down their operations in Canada in response--however, they also picked up and moved their scheme to the US shortly after.

The SEC Moved in Quickly

It was the pair’s caper in Canada that put the US government hot on Plexcoin’s trail. The SEC filed a charge against the Plexcoin token sale, the first time that the agency’s cyber unit had taken such an action against an ICO.

At the time, Plexcoin clapped back at the Commission, filing a motion that said that the SEC was “engaged in a tremendous overreach, toward persons who are not subject to personal jurisdiction in this judicial district, and toward transactions that are excluded from Regulation Regulation Like any other industry with a high net worth, the financial services industry is tightly regulated to help curb illicit behavior and manipulation. Each asset class has its own set of protocols put in place to combat their respective forms of abuse.In the foreign exchange space, regulation is assumed by authorities in multiple jurisdictions, though ultimately lacking a binding international order. Who are the Industry’s Leading Regulators?Regulators such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority ( Like any other industry with a high net worth, the financial services industry is tightly regulated to help curb illicit behavior and manipulation. Each asset class has its own set of protocols put in place to combat their respective forms of abuse.In the foreign exchange space, regulation is assumed by authorities in multiple jurisdictions, though ultimately lacking a binding international order. Who are the Industry’s Leading Regulators?Regulators such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority ( Read this Term under U.S. federal securities laws.”

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The motion also alleged that “in order for a U.S. person to obtain PlexCoin, that person would have to lie, misrepresent their status as a U.S. person, and thus make Payments Payments One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl One of the bases of mediums of exchange in the modern world, a payment constitutes the transfer of a legal currency or equivalent from one party in exchange for goods or services to another entity. The payments industry has become a fixture of modern commerce, though the players involved and means of exchange have dramatically shifted over time.In particular, a party making a payment is referred to as a payer, with the payee reflecting the individual or entity receiving the payment. Most commonl Read this Term to non-U.S. entities to acquire a non-U.S.-domiciled cryptocurrency through a transaction consummated outside the U.S.” A strange statement, given that the pair behind Plexcoin very deliberately moved their company’s operations to the United States.

Eventually, the pair filed for a dismissal of the SEC’s charges; it was not granted. Instead, the SEC summoned Paradis-Royer and Lacroix to come in for questioning by April 30th. They did not come. Now, the SEC has ordered a deposition in New York.