{"id":72042,"date":"2022-12-28T13:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T11:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=72042"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T09:33:55","slug":"ukraines-securities-regulator-puts-bitbon-on-the-list-of-unreliable-investment-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ukraines-securities-regulator-puts-bitbon-on-the-list-of-unreliable-investment-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine&#8217;s securities regulator puts Bitbon on the list of unreliable investment projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine&#8217;s National Securities and Stock Market Commission (\u041d\u041a\u0426\u0411\u0424\u0420) added eight cases to the list of unreliable investment projects on December 27.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnssmc.ukraine%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0PJ81MzTYUG3XP87WwteE5sNh6zewASHu51bRi7BQN7MpjekmiWpUT7WQx9XPWmSyl&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The regulator warned potential investors of the significant risks associated with investing through persons whose activities lie outside the regulatory and supervisory perimeter in the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The regulator regards the following as dubious entities:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PowerTrend, a trading platform;<\/li>\n<li>brokers Umarkets, ORA SMART, Grand Capital and Pelliron;<\/li>\n<li>OST UP CHUK business school;<\/li>\n<li>WestFitGroup educational and consultancy centre;<\/li>\n<li>the Bitbon system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ForkLog has previously reported on the Bitbon project in a separate investigation. In December 2019 the Bitbon project&#8217;s backing company Simcord used the logo of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine at one of its events without authorization.<\/p>\n<p>The Bitbon system itself employs a multi-level rewards distribution system.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in May 2021, participants in the OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid spread <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ukraines-ministry-of-digital-transformation-denies-cooperation-with-the-onecoin-pyramid\">false information about a partnership<\/a> with the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. The agency denied any such agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news in our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 27, Ukraine&#8217;s National Commission on Securities and the Stock Market (\u041d\u041a\u0426\u0411\u0424\u0420) added eight cases to the list of unreliable investment projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1528,1163,16],"class_list":["post-72042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-nssmc","tag-ponzi-schemes","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72044,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72042\/revisions\/72044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}