According to a U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) announcement made on December 12, 2018, a United States federal court has well-ordered the major executives from cryptocurrency company called as AriseBank to make a payment of $2.7 million in penalties, The ruling follows an examination by the SEC, which originated that AriseBank was functioning a fake Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The court had also well-ordered the closing of AriseBank’s possessions, while generous the selection of a receiver for those assets knotted to the ICO scam.
In November 2018, Jared Rice AriseBank CEO was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for charges of deceiving many investors for more than $4 million. Rice purportedly incorrectly demanded that the bank will provide clients. FDIC-insured accounts and old-style banking services, such as debit cards and Visa-brand credit, in addition to crypto services. AriseBank both the founders Stanley Ford and Jared Rice will pay civil penalties of $184,767 each and will be forbidden from helping as majors of public firms or contributing in offerings of digital securities, the SEC further added in a statement. In 2017, the SEC had stopped what it unproven was a fake ICO by AriseBank to increase $1 billion for its AriseCoin crypto, that was measured one of the main ICOs ever.
Inopportunely, every time there’s currency, there are rip-offs, and ICOs are no exclusion. The Securities and Exchange Commission took implementation action in contradiction of cryptocurrency banks recently by shutting all the assets of AriseBank and stumbling its ICO. AriseBank CEO Jared Rice isn’t giving up, though, and in a communication to ICO groups via Telegram, Rice mentioned that he is not holding firm. AriseBank was envisioned to be the world’s firstly decentralized bank, where clients can get outdated banking services denominated in crypto. The bank meant to increase $1 billion in employed wealth via sales of its coin. Before its assets were frozen, the bank demanded to have increased by $700 million from depositors. The founders are even below felony indictment in Dallas County, Texas, for the attack, after which he supposedly demolished indication by robbery the victim’s deleting an audio recording of the incident as well as stealing the phone.
The most undoubted quarrel was that AriseBank demanded that it had touched a contract with the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to obtain banks like TPMG and KFMC Bank Holding Company. Also, the bank had to collaborate with the Bitshares Corporation, a big company specifying in expansions in the field of the blockchain. According to a press release issued by the Texas Department of Banking, in January 2018 it had well-ordered to dismiss every process of AriseBank policy.
