Novatech

Panama-based husband-and-wife Eddy and Cynthia Petion have been charged by the U.S. SEC with swindling $650 million from over 200,000 investors in a "crypto trading investment and pyramid scheme" via their Saint Vincent and the Grenadines-domiciled firm known as NovaTech.

Complaint alleging Cynthia and Eddy Petion "defrauded thousands of investors worldwide out of over a billion dollars by promoting two consecutive fraudulent investment schemes", namely AWS Mining Pty Ltd. and NovaTechFX, in People of the State of New York v. Nova Tech Ltd., of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; NovaTech Advisors LLC, AWS Mining Pty Ltd., of Australia; Cynthia Petion, Eddy Petion, Martin Zizi, James Corbett, Frantz Ciceron, NovaPay LLC, Kings Multi Services Agency LLC, Trinity of Success, and Positive Vision Marketing LLC at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, USA.

Class Action Complaint alleging a Ponzi scheme that "resulted in the loss of $2.3 billion" in Avis Mullins v. Novatech, Cynthia Petion, Eddy Petion, Ricardo Roy, Jean Martin Zizi, Travis Bieberitz, NovaTech Ltd., of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Novatech Advisors LLC, Nova Pay LLC, NovaTrading Oü, of Estonia; Smart Bit Inc., Deborah Brasil, Frantz Ciceron, Ciceron Frantz & Associates Inc., Paul J. DeRenzo, John Garofano, Bob St. Louis, James Corbett, and John Does 1-500 at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.