{"id":13321,"date":"2024-02-14T14:37:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/victoria-police-were-asked-to-look-at-hyperverse-information-in-2020-but-sent-case-back-to-asic-22-months-later\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T14:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:37:26","slug":"victoria-police-were-asked-to-look-at-hyperverse-information-in-2020-but-sent-case-back-to-asic-22-months-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/victoria-police-were-asked-to-look-at-hyperverse-information-in-2020-but-sent-case-back-to-asic-22-months-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria police were asked to look at HyperVerse information in 2020 \u2013 but sent case back to Asic 22 months later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian financial regulator says it referred crypto scheme to police for alleged \u2018possible fraud\u2019 and believed matter was under \u2018active consideration\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia\u2019s corporate watchdog referred information about the alleged US$1.89bn \u201cPonzi scheme\u201d known as HyperVerse to Victoria police in 2020, only for it to be referred back almost two years later without any action being taken.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Securities and Investments Commission made the referral to Victoria police for alleged \u201cpossible fraud offences\u201d after concerns were raised with the corporate regulator about a related company, Blockchain Global. Asic did not provide detail on what prompted the referral.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/15\/victoria-police-were-asked-to-look-at-hyperverse-information-in-2020-but-sent-case-back-to-asic-22-months-later\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5397b516643d4957c75f510034bce939806d789e\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a30de24d5d8af2724c38c2a592ee31fa\" title=\"Victoria police were asked to look at HyperVerse information in 2020 \u2013 but sent case back to Asic 22 months later\" \/>Australian financial regulator says it referred crypto scheme to police for alleged \u2018possible fraud\u2019 and believed matter was under \u2018active consideration\u2019<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nAustralia\u2019s corporate watchdog referred information about the alleged US$1.89bn \u201cPonzi scheme\u201d known as HyperVerse to Victoria police in 2020, only for it to be referred back almost two years later without any action being taken.<br \/>\nThe Australian Securities and Investments Commission made the referral to Victoria police for alleged \u201cpossible fraud offences\u201d after concerns were raised with the corporate regulator about a related company, Blockchain Global. Asic did not provide detail on what prompted the referral. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian financial regulator says it referred crypto scheme to police for alleged \u2018possible fraud\u2019 and believed matter was under \u2018active consideration\u2019 Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australia\u2019s corporate watchdog referred information about the alleged US$1.89bn \u201cPonzi scheme\u201d known as HyperVerse to Victoria police in 2020, only for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/victoria-police-were-asked-to-look-at-hyperverse-information-in-2020-but-sent-case-back-to-asic-22-months-later\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Victoria police were asked to look at HyperVerse information in 2020 \u2013 but sent case back to Asic 22 months later<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}