Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC has filed a class-action lawsuit against Ripple Labs Inc over the firm’s sale and offer of “unregistered security” which is in violation of the US Securities and Exchange law.
The firm says in order for Ripple to garner enormous demand for XRP and increase profits by selling XRP, Ripple codified XRP as a good investment and put forward mouthwatering price prediction. In the new class-action lawsuit, Ripple and its CEO Brad Garlinghouse were alleged of selling securities purposely to enrich their pockets and that of their allies.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in the Northern California District Court, insinuates that Ripple, going by available data from Nomics, particularly marketed XRO to gain a whopping sum that’s more than $1 billion.
The lawsuit points out that Ripple conflated its enterprise business with the usage of XRP. Ripple lines inextricably linked to the promotion of XRP, the lawsuit files.
“Ripple lines up crypto-exchange to list XRP and pays substantial listing fees as part of those promotional efforts, and Ripple also placed a substantial percentage of XRP that it owned into escrow and developed a plan as to when XRP should be sold and in what quantities, all to limit selling pressure on the market in order to prop up the price of XRP.”
The lawsuit pulled an article on Ripplelabs.com where it allegedly contained that Ripple stated that it will engage in distribution strategies that “will result in a stable or strengthening XRP exchange rate against other currencies.”
The charges, were filed by attorney Pavel Pogodin of Consensus Law with the plaintiff being Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC. The body also charged FTX Exchange to court for selling and manipulating unlicensed securities. The $150M Lawsuit was dismissed by the US Court in December 2019.
Last week, Ripple sued YouTube for failing to take down some video about Ripple put on the Google-owned video streaming platform by suspected fraudsters scamming unsuspecting YouTube users.
According to Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse, the enterprise blockchain firm has “repeatedly demanded that YouTube take action to stop the Scam and prevent further harm,” however, it refused to take down the videos.
“YouTube’s response has been woefully inadequate and incomplete,” claims Brad Garlinghouse who also believes YouTube “failed to police their platforms from being abused by the entirely preventable imposter giveaway scams.”
