Ким Кардашьян заплатила SEC 1.26 миллиона долларов за урегулирование обвинения EthereumMax

American socialite Kim Kardashian will pay $1.26 million in penalties for her involvement in the promotion of a cryptocurrency scheme called EthereumMax (EMAX).

Комиссия по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) объявило the charges against Kardashian on Oct. 3 for “touting on social media a crypto asset security offered and sold by EthereumMax” without disclosing the payment received for her promotional involvement.

Kardashian has agreed to settle the charges and pay $1.26 million in penalties, disgorgement and interest and is set to cooperate with further investigations by the SEC into the EthereumMax project.

The announcement noted that Kardashian failed to disclose a $250,000 payment she had received to publish a post on her Instagram profile promoting EMAX tokens with a link to the project’s website.

The order by the SEC finds that Kardashian violated the anti-touting provision of federal securities laws. This has been the case with other prominent cryptocurrency securities violations involving the SEC in the past.

Kardashian neither admitted or denied the SEC’s findings but agreed to settle the charges. This was broken down into $260,000 in disgorgement as well as a $1 million penalty. Kardashian has also agreed to not promote any cryptocurrency assets until 2025.

SEC chairman Gary Gensler also used the order to advise the general public to do their due diligence when investing in cryptocurrency assets, while reminding celebrities and influencers of their obligation to disclose payments relating to promotions of securities.

«Этот случай является напоминанием о том, что, когда знаменитости или влиятельные лица одобряют инвестиционные возможности, включая ценные бумаги криптоактивов, это не означает, что эти инвестиционные продукты подходят для всех инвесторов. Мы призываем инвесторов учитывать потенциальные риски и возможности инвестиций в свете их собственных финансовых целей».

Kardashian’s legal team also подал ходатайство to set aside a class-action complaint aimed at the businesswoman and other American celebrities in August 2022. Kardashian and a handful of other prominent American social media influencers were served with a class-action complaint in January 2022 over claims they misled investors through the social media promotion EthereumMax.

Kardashian posted Instagram stories promoting the project in June 2021, with the likes of boxing great Floyd Mayweather also embroiled in the lawsuit after promoting the Ethereum-based token in the build-up to a celebrity boxing bout against YouTuber Logan Paul during the same period.

Поклонники могли покупать билеты с оплатой за просмотр с помощью токена, который резко вырос после продвижения Кардашьян и других влиятельных лиц. После этого стоимость EthereumMax значительно упала, в результате чего многие остались без денег.

В первоначальном судебном иске, в котором перечислены Кардашьян, Мэйвезер и еще восемь человек, утверждалось, что руководители компании сотрудничали со знаменитостями, чтобы делать вводящие в заблуждение заявления о токене и их контроле над большинством токенов. Стив Джентиле и Джованни Пероне были указаны как соучредители проекта.