Bitcoin-to-Gold Service Faces Class Action Over Alleged Fraud
Bitcoin-to-gold website Coinabul LLC is facing a serious federal class action alleging that it defrauded some of its clients. The leading plaintiff is Yazan Hussein, who claims he transferred 1,644.54 BTC to Coinabul last year, but did not receive the gold he ordered. The federal complaint was filed in Illinois on 25th July. It names Coinabul and its CEO Jason Shore as defendants. Hussein demands a jury trial. Hussein turned to Edelson law for representation, the same firm heading the Mt. Gox class action in the US. Chris Dore, a partner at the firm, told CoinDesk that Hussein reached out....
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The fallout from Mt. Gox's 28th February bankruptcy filing is already in full swing, as one bitcoin investor has filed a class action lawsuit in Chicago on behalf of the alleged victims of the troubled Japan-based exchange and its CEO, Mark Karpeles. Gregory Greene and his lawyer Steven Woodrow, a partner at the Edelson law firm in Denver, Colorado, filed a complaint against Mt. Gox and Karpeles in the U. S. District Court on Thursday, claiming the company was fraudulent and negligent in its failure to protect customers against theft. Woodrow, who submitted the lawsuit to the Northern....