Unicoin, according to SEC, was falsely promoting it’s tokens which had to be tied to “rights certificates” backed by real-world assets such as international real estate holdings and equity interests in pre-IPO companies worth billions of dollars

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Unicoin allegedly targeted thousands of investors with unsupported promises that its crypto tokens would be backed by real-world assets including real estate holdings and equity interests in pre-IPO companies worth billions of dollars, the SEC said. "But as we allege, the real estate assets were worth a mere fraction of what the company claimed, and the majority of the company’s sales of rights certificates were illusory," said Mark Cave, associate director in the SEC's Division of Enforcement.

"We allege that Unicoin and its executives exploited thousands of investors with fictitious promises that its tokens, when issued, would be backed by real-world assets including an international portfolio of valuable real estate holdings," Mark Cave, associate director in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, said in a statement. "But as we allege, the real estate assets were worth a mere fraction of what the company claimed."