NY Court adjourns sentencing of ICO fraudster Maksim Zaslavskiy

Maria Nikolova

The sentence date, initially set for May 20, 2019, will be rescheduled shortly.

The sentencing of Maksim Zaslavskiy, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with two Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) will be adjourned, the latest filings with the New York Eastern District Court reveal. 

In a brief notice submitted on May 17, 2019, the Court says the sentence, initially scheduled for May 20, 2019, is adjourned. The Court will reschedule the sentence date, shortly.

The charges against Zaslavskiy stem from a conspiracy to defraud investors and potential investors in connection with two initial coin offerings (ICOs) – Recoin and Diamond.

As he admitted at his guilty plea, Zaslavskiy fraudulently marketed RECoin as “The First Ever Cryptocurrency Backed by Real Estate,” and subsequently touted Diamond as an “exclusive and tokenized membership pool” hedged by diamonds. In fact, Zaslavskiy bought neither real estate nor diamonds, and the certificates he sent to investors were not backed by the promised blockchain technology.

Moreover, Zaslavskiy falsely advertised that REcoin had a “team of lawyers, professionals, brokers and accountants” who would invest the proceeds from the REcoin ICO into real estate, that 2.8 million REcoin tokens had been sold (only about 1,000 investors paid for REcoin tokens) and that the investment in Diamond tokens was “hedged by physical diamonds.”

The defendant and the US Government disagree on the appropriate sentence for Zaslavskiy. Whereas the defendant argues in favor of a sentence of probation, the US Government seeks a sentence of 30-37 months of imprisonment for Zaslavskiy.

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