{"id":977,"date":"2017-12-20T17:58:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silvermillerlaw.com\/?post_type=news&p=977"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T13:20:46","slug":"cryptocurrency-hedge-fund-hit-class-action-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"news_posts","link":"https:\/\/www.silvermillerlaw.com\/press\/in-the-news\/cryptocurrency-hedge-fund-hit-class-action-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund hit With Class Action Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
David Silver Quote: <\/strong><\/p>\n \nDaniel Harrison and Monkey Capital are a damning indictment of what is wrong with the ICO market and the unregulated sales of securities<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Monkey Capital, a Delaware-based company seeking to create a decentralized hedge fund, has been hit with a class action lawsuit alleging a fraudulent issuance of securities.<\/p>\n The claim, filed in the U.S. District Court in Florida, represents five plaintiffs who invested cryptocurrency now valued at $3.8 million into the project ahead of a proposed token sale last July that was to help build the Monkey Capital Market \u2013 an envisaged decentralized hedge fund and private crypto exchange.<\/p>\n The investors purchased cryptocurrency options called “coevals” that were to be later used to purchase tokens called Monkey Coins at a valuation premium in a forthcoming token sale.<\/p>\n However, after the sale was delayed, Monkey Capital’s fundraising website disappeared altogether in early August, when the sale was scheduled to resume. It has yet to reappear.<\/p>\n The suit alleges that Daniel Harrison, founder of Monkey Capital and an heir to Harrison & Sons \u2013 a U.K.-based printing house \u2013 then captured the proceeds via a network of pass-through companies and exchanged them for crypto or fiat currency.<\/p>\n