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Terra/Luna Fraud Case

N.D. Illinois
Court
1:23-cv-02921
Case number
On September 14, 2022, Bloomberg reported that a court in South Korea issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the founder of the Terraform Labs cryptocurrency ecosystem, whose implosion earlier this year sparked a global crypto rout. Allegations include violations of the nation’s capital markets law.

Going back a few months, massive sales of UST and LUNA assets led to their collapse and the complete loss of funds by investors.

  • Terraform Labs described their tools like this: Pegging 1 UST to $1 is based on the concept of arbitrage and the Mint & Burn mechanism. The Terra protocol allows arbitrageurs to exchange each 1 UST issued for the corresponding $1 price of LUNA tokens. The company misled investors that the TerraUSD instrument (UST) was pegged to the US dollar at a ratio of 1 to 1.
  • In April 2022 there were announced plans to buy at least $ 10 billion in bitcoin to provide financial support for the UST.
  • Investors have been further misled by reports of increased investment security through insurance with Bitcoin reserves.
  • On May 05, 2022, the non-profit Luna Foundation Guard announced the purchase of 37.863 thousand bitcoins for $1.5 billion, on which Luna quotes updated their highs.
  • After major withdrawals through the Anchor Protocol on May 7-8, UST ceased to fulfill its function of reflecting the dollar exchange rate 1 to 1. According to the management of Luna Foundation Guard, on May 10 they used their reserves to support the coin. In fact, we can only say that the collateral from the LFG disappeared from its official wallet, the facts of the use of funds for protection were not provided.
Ultimately, the value of UST and Luna coins fell to almost zero, and on May 13, the Binance exchange closed all trading pairs for these assets. Changpeng Zhao has publicly slammed Terraform Labs over its handling of Terra’s collapse: “I am very disappointed with how this UST/LUNA incident was handled (or not handled) by the Terra team. We requested their team to restore the network, burn the extra minted LUNA, and recover the UST peg. So far, we have not gotten any positive response or much response at all”.

99% of funds were lost by investors for a total of $45 billion.
Case Status
Attorney Investigation
Alleged Offence
Mismanagement
Misleading Statements
Financial Misrepresentation
Fraud
Failure to Disclose
Price manipulation
Insider Trading
Malpractice
Negligence
Breach of Fiduciary duty
Omissions
Other
Suspected Party
Directors
Management
Shareholder
Influencer
Investment Bank
Service Provider
Research Entity
Hedge Fund
Security Type
Crypto Asset
Trade Direction
Long
Shock Event Date
14 September 2022
Filing date
09 May 2023
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