The SEC has revealed it bungled service on BitConnect defendant Craig Grant.
Owing to Craig Grant fleeing the US in mid 2021, the SEC needed to monitor him down in Jamaica to impact service.
This noticed the regulator make use of “an impartial investigative agency” to find Grant.
To that finish on October eighth, the SEC revealed it had tracked Grant down at an deal with in Spanish City.
A course of server was employed and Grant was served at this deal with on October twenty ninth.
Only one drawback although, the SEC had the mistaken Craig Grant.
As revealed in a December 2nd submitting, the SEC writes;
On November 30, 2021, the Fee obtained correspondence from an lawyer in Jamaica, advising that his consumer, the person on whom service was effected on the deal with listed on the Amended Summons, is just not the named Defendant Grant on this motion, however a distinct particular person with the identical first and final identify, center preliminary, and approximate age.
The Fee is endeavor efforts to verify the accuracy of those statements, and can inform the Court docket as to its findings.
This was adopted up by a December tenth submitting, wherein the SEC said;
The investigative agency the Fee engaged to find an deal with for Grant and impact service of the Summons and Criticism on him in Jamaica has since confirmed to the Fee that the deal with it beforehand offered to the Fee for Grant was inaccurate, and is related to a distinct particular person who shares the identical first and final identify, and center preliminary, as Grant.
The Fee’s present data is that Grant is presently positioned in Jamaica, and it’s endeavor to verify his deal with, so as to impact service on him promptly.
The cited investigative agency is the agency the SEC employed. This would seem to rule out the likelihood BitConnect’s Craig Grant employed a dodgy lawyer to fake he was a distinct Craig Grant.
Primarily based on our personal evaluation of Grant’s since deleted Jamaican YouTube movies, BehindMLM positioned him in or round Christiana.
Christiana is a city in Manchester Parish, positioned in central Jamaica.
Spanish City is in Jamaica’s east, roughly ten miles west of the capital Kingston.
Grant remains to be believed to be in central Jamaica however has since stopped uploaded to YouTube.