The Federal Bureau of Cleveland's investigations is looking for potential investors in the already stopped existence of BitConnect, which operated according to the Ponzi scheme.

 "The FBI is looking for potential victims of the Bitsonnect cryptocurrency pyramid that BCC token in 2016 was bought within the framework of ICO, the statement said

law enforcement body. - To buy the bulk of the time, to exchange or sell the cryptocurrency of the company was only on the BitSonnect's own stock exchange. By mid-December 2017, the BCC capitalization reached a mark of $ 2.5 billion, "the Agency also reports.

The FBI writes that the pyramid collapsed at the end of January last year, after the two regulators of the states at the state level publicly reported investors about the pyramid-like nature of the project. Subsequently, the BitConnect platform was closed, and investors have only nothing worthwhile tokens BCS in their hands.

The FBI in his statement requests potential victims to fill in a special form and thus provide information about the volume of invested funds, faces that they invited them to a fraudulent project, the source from which they learned about BitConnect, and any additional information that could help investigate and search for criminals. After analyzing the information provided, the FBI can contact some respondents for more information.

A special agent Vicky Anderson (Vicki Anderson) in a conversation with Bloomberg Law noted that this is the first official statement from the FBI to investigate BitConnect.

In October 2018, all claims against this cryptocurrency pyramid united

In one trial.

A few months before that, in June, the federal bureau of investigations stated that at that time agency led 130 investigations that were associated with cryptocurrencies.