As a business owner who is involved with cryptocurrencies will be suspected of extortion. He was an advisor to a Seattle-based startup that had to do with the digital assets.
Steven Nerayoff, and threatened that he and his company destroy them, if they do not meet the requirement of more than $8 million, could be met.
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The company took a Nerayoff employed as a consultant, working in partnerships, to connect and to raise capital. The operator received a substantial paid for his work, but it was not enough.
He got a job at the paper to write, and has helped in the creation of the public image of your organization. He would get to 22.5% of the total number of the issued token is received. In addition, he could also count on the same percentage of the funds collected.
It had to be an entrepreneur to make $16 million in funding to catch up. His / her income? For the sweet sum of $3.7 million. At least, that was the deal.
After the end of the sale, claimed he has, however, almost half of the money raised.
He wanted to be in the amount of $8,75 million to walk away. He threatened that, “the crowdsale would be to tamper with the negative press it would generate, and that his contacts with influential people working to get the company to destroy it.”
Allegedly paid for the startup, this means an additional us $3,78 million Ether (ETH).
And it still wasn’t enough. During the cryptowinter in 2018, he asked the company to it for more than 350 million tokens would be ‘donate’.
In march 2018, he asked for a further one year’s salary of $4,45 million, which would have been paid for.
Co-operation partner
Nerayoff did all this in co-operation with a partner. Michael Hadly, an old favourite of the Irish army, to help with the demolition.
He went a step further: he contacted the relatives of the chief executive officer of the startup.
The two suspects have been arrested and brought before the evil. If they are guilty, they can be up to 20 years in prison, to be judged for it.
Both of the scammers on this point, however, while out on bail. This was respectively in the $750,000, and $50,000 or more to put down.
Source: Newsbtc.com
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