Fok Fook Seng, a 51-year-old company director from Singapore, has been hit with a S$100,000 ($71,763) fine for actively advertising a multi-level marketing (MLM) scheme, CNA reports.
It is worth noting that court proceedings are still underway as of June 2, and Lim Yoong Fook, another businessman involved in the promotion, is yet to be fined.
Introducing Singaporeans to OneCoin
Together with his 47-year-old accomplice, Fok was charged back in April 2019 with promoting MLM (Lim faced two offenses for incorporating a company in the process).
In 2016, Fok joined Lim to run the âOneLife Network Global Compensation Planâ initiative that was started one year earlier.
They conducted numerous seminars to promote educational materials related to the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
Singaporean police claim that they were looking for new members with the help of a Facebook page:
âAs of June 2017, there were 1,180 members in Singapore and other countries under his main account due to his own referral efforts and that of his team members.â
All buyers were allegedly able to get free tokens that would allow them to mine the fraudulent token.
A $4 bln Ponzi scheme
OneCoin was started by elusive Bulgarian fraudster Ruja Ignatova (dubbed âThe Missing Cryptoqueenâ).
Ignatova was able to steal close to $4 bln with the help of her fraudulent cryptocurrency before disappearing.
Cryptocurrencies remain unregulated in Singapore, which is why the countryâs police recommend not to deal with them.
