氫技術高管因 HYDRO 價格操縱而入獄

執行長邁克爾凱恩(Michael Kane)和金融工程主管肖恩漢普頓(Shane Hampton)總共被判處六年多監禁。

Two Hydrogen Technology executives were sentenced to jail for defrauding investors by manipulating the price of the HYDRO token, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday.

美國司法部週二表示，兩名 Hydrogen Technology 高層因操縱 HYDRO 代幣價格欺騙投資者而被判入獄。

CEO Michael Kane, 39, was sentenced to three years and nine months and 32-year-old Shane Hampton, the company's head of financial engineering, was sentenced to two years and 11 months, according to a DOJ statement.

根據美國司法部的聲明，39 歲的執行長邁克爾凱恩(Michael Kane) 被判處三年九個月監禁，公司金融工程主管32 歲的肖恩漢普頓(Shane Hampton)被判處兩年11 個月監禁。

The two enlisted a South African company called Moonwalkers Trading to manipulate the HYDRO price on an unidentified U.S.-based crypto exchange using a bot to place some $7 million of so-called wash trades and $300 million worth of spoof trades between October 2018 and April 2019, the DOJ said. The actions enabled them to make $2 million in profits from selling HYDRO at inflated prices.

兩人招募了一家名為Moonwalkers Trading 的南非公司，利用機器人在2018 年10 月至2019 年4 月期間進行了約700 萬美元的所謂洗盤交易和價值3 億美元的欺騙交易，操縱一家身份不明的美國加密貨幣交易所的HYDRO 價格。這些行動使他們能夠透過以高價出售 HYDRO 賺取 200 萬美元的利潤。

Kane, from Miami Beach, pleaded guilty in November 2023 to wire fraud and committing securities price manipulation. Hampton, from Philadelphia, was convicted on Feb. 7 of conspiracy to commit securities price manipulation and wire fraud.

來自邁阿密海灘的凱恩於 2023 年 11 月承認電匯欺詐和證券價格操縱罪。來自費城的漢普頓於 2 月 7 日被判串謀操縱證券價格和電匯欺詐罪。

"In this case, for the first time, a jury in a federal criminal trial found that a cryptocurrency was a security and that manipulating cryptocurrency prices was securities fraud," Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, said in the press release

「在本案中，聯邦刑事審判中的陪審團首次認定加密貨幣是一種證券，而操縱加密貨幣價格屬於證券欺詐，」司法部刑事司司長 Nicole M. Argentieri 在法庭上表示。

Last year, Hydrogen Technology was fined just under $2.8 million and Kane $260,206 by the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York for violating securities law in a case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

去年，在美國證券交易委員會提起的訴訟中，Hydrogen Technology 因違反證券法而被紐約南區美國地方法院罰款近 280 萬美元和 Kane 260,206 美元。

Two other co-conspirators, Andrew Chorlian and Tyler Ostern, pleaded guilty in May 2023 to securities price manipulation and wire fraud charges and have already been sentenced, the press release said.

新聞稿稱，另外兩名同謀安德魯·喬利安 (Andrew Chorlian) 和泰勒·奧斯特恩 (Tyler Ostern) 於 2023 年 5 月承認操縱證券價格和電匯欺詐指控，並已被判刑。