CFTC v. Mirror Trading International Pty. Ltd. et al: Complaint (‘$1.7B Bitcoin Fraud’)

Complaint alleging “an international fraudulent multi-level marketing scheme” that received “at least 29,421 Bitcoin – with a value of over $1,733,838,372” in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited and Cornelius, of South Africa, Johannes Steynberg, described as a citizen of South Africa who “was recently detained in the Federative Republic of Brazil on an INTERPOL arrest warrant”, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.