US Sentences Man to three Years in Jail for Defrauding Buyers in Crypto Mining Scheme

A U.S. district decide has sentenced a person to 3 years in jail in a fraudulent cryptocurrency mining scheme. The defendant “misappropriated his victims’ cash and failed to supply them with the miners and miner-hosting providers they’d bought from him,” based on the U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ).

Man Sentenced to Jail for Defrauding Buyers in Crypto Mining Scheme

The U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ) introduced Thursday that Chester (Chet) Stojanovich has been sentenced to 3 years in jail “for defrauding purchasers of cryptocurrency miners and miner-hosting providers.” He pled responsible in November final 12 months to at least one rely of wire fraud.

The DOJ defined that from at the very least 2019 till his arrest in April 2022, Stojanovich “allegedly defrauded greater than a dozen victims of greater than $2 million by means of fraudulent misrepresentations that he would supply his clients with specialised cryptocurrency-mining computer systems (‘miners’) and miner-hosting providers that would supply the victims with a profitable stream of ‘hash energy’ convertible into cryptocurrency.” The Justice Division added:

As a substitute, Stojanovich misappropriated his victims’ cash and failed to supply them with the miners and miner-hosting providers they’d bought from him.

In addition to failing to supply the consumers with the cryptocurrency mining tools and the internet hosting providers they’d purchased, the DOJ mentioned Stojanovich “employed misleading practices to create the phantasm that such miners had been acquired and have been getting used to supply hash energy to these clients.”

Furthermore, Stojanovich allegedly “misappropriated his clients’ funds and spent the funds on unrelated and private expenditures, together with chartered air flights, resort rooms, limousines, and personal events,” the Division of Justice detailed. Noting that Stojanovich was sentenced on Thursday earlier than U.S. District Decide Denise Cote, the DOJ concluded:

Along with his jail sentence, Stojanovich … was sentenced at the moment to 3 years of supervised launch, forfeiture of $2,158,927, and restitution to his victims within the quantity of $2,108,927.

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