Abstract:Two American men who conspired in a $30 million fraud in forex trading will be put into jail for 5 years.
The Department of Justice reported that two American men who organised a $30 million fraudulent foreign exchange (forex) trading operation had been given jail terms of up to five years.
Florida resident Michael Dion, aged 50, was given a sentence of four years and seven months in prison, while Massachusetts resident Patrick Gallagher, aged 45, received a five-year prison term. Both admitted guilt to conspiring to conduct securities fraud in September 2022, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence.
According to court filings, the forex trading scheme was run by Gallagher and Dion through their company, Global Forex Management. They co-conspired with an online trading platform provider named IB Capital and promised high profits based on faked prior returns.
They informed investors that their funds would be traded using an internet trading platform provided by the corporation of a co-conspirator, IB Capital, and they promised investors high profits based on faked prior returns.
Indeed, by working with their accomplices in The Netherlands, Gallagher and Dion stole the investors' money. By purposefully making unsuccessful transactions in May 2012, they stole $30 million from investors. The money was then transferred through fictitious shell companies that were formed all across the world after they faked the enormous loss.
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