- SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission) imposed a fine of $1.26 million on Kim Kardashian.
- Kim Kardashian acknowledged to pay the fine and guaranteed that she wouldn’t promote crypto on any of her web-based social media entertainment for 3 years.
- Kim has been completely helping out with the SEC’s procedures since the earliest reference point, as she additionally needs that she can get herself out of this matter at the earliest opportunity.
Kim Kardashian, a name that needs no recognizable proof. Entertainer Kim Kardashian, who is popular all around the world for her enchanting character and her style, has turned into a subject of conversation again nowadays.
These days the time of Cryptocurrency money is going on. In such circumstances, everybody needs that they ought to likewise pursue this cryptocurrency trend and make their own great wealth. It turns out to be significantly simpler when you have a great many followers on your web-based social media and who follow each guidance you give right away.
However, once in a while because of this expectation, an individual likewise gets a major misfortune and with that, he gets numerous issues. Something almost similar occurred with the undeniably popular big-name Kim Kardashian.
We let you know this entire sentence all things considered. In reality, this series begins from the long stretch of June of 2021 last year, When Kim Kardashian posted a story on her massive social media Instagram account in which she asked her 328 million followers to put their money in the EthereumMax cryptocurrency.
Kim Kardashian posted in her instagram story: “ARE YOU GUYS INTO CRYPTO???? THOS IS NT FINANCIAL ADVICE BUT SHARING WHAT MY FRIENDS JUST TOLD ME ABOUT THE ETHEREUM MAX TOKEN! A FEW MINUTES AGO ETHEREUM MAX BURNED 400 TRILLION TOKENS- LITERALLY 50% OF THEIR ADMIN WALLET GIVING BACK TO THE ENTIRE E-MAX COMMUNITY. #EMAX #DISRUPTHISTORY #ETHEREUMMAX #GIOPEMAX #AD”
Actually, what Kim Kardashian claimed in her post regarding crypto, she had taken payment of 250,000 US dollars from the EthereumMax crypto company, but she could not prove this claim to the regulatory. For this matter, the crypto regulatory imposed such a huge fine of 1.26 million US dollars on her. And under this, which she had said to receive an amount of 250,000 US dollars, the regulatory has also included it under this fine. And along with this, its interest is also included in this fine.
The SEC regulatory made Kim Kardashian the subject of investigation in this case when it found that Kim has completely violated the laws of anti-touting provision of federal securities through her crypto promotion post on the Instagram platform.
As you can see Kim Kardashian wrote in her post: “That this is not a financial advice“. Kim further writes “SHARING WHAT MY FRIENDS JUST TOLD ME ABOUT THE ETHEREUM MAX TOKEN“. And along with her post, she also put some hashtags to it like #ad.
The head of the SEC Gery Gensler warned the people without considering anyone as a celebrity and without any discrimination, “This case is a reminder that, when celebrities or influencers endorse investment opportunities including cryptto-asset securities, it doesn’t mean that those investment products are right for all investors. We encourage investors to to consider an investment’s potential risks and opportunities in light of their own financial goals”.
The SEC head Gary Gensler also told about American regulation that whoever promotes or sells anything connected with the finance world (whether it is a stock or cryptocurrency), then, at that point, as indicated by American regulation, they need to tell that, they are doing a paid promotion.
In one of his interviews with CNBC, the SEC head Gary Gensler said that anything he did, he did it to save the investing public and their money. No matter who has committed this mistake, even if they are a celebrity, they will have to face the consequences of the mistake.
Kim Kardashian has promoted many brands in her posts till date, yet this time promoting this EthereumMax crypto promotion in her post has become excessively weighty for her, because of which she needs to pay such a heavy fine.
Despite the fact that Kim Kardashian has been blamed for touting, however she is additionally being praised for the way that she cooperated in every way in the investigation without denying anything and without any further progress, she accepted to pay the fine with great ease. The SEC head Gary Gensler also praised this.
Kim Kardashian’s lawyer told the media in one of his interviews that “She does not want at all that her investigation should be made a mountain out of a molehill. Whatever they have done to end this matter, they have done it under American regulation. Now she wants to move ahead in life with her family and her profession.”