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SEC orders Astrazion group to stop fraudulent investment scheme

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered Astrazion Noble Task Community Foundation, Astrazion Global Holdings Philippines, Inc., and Astrazion International to stop offering their supposed digital currency through an illegal multilevel marketing platform.

In an order dated May 12, the Commission en banc directed the Astrazion Group to immediately cease and desist from engaging in the unlawful/unauthorized solicitation, offer and/or sale of securities until it has filed the requisite registration statement and secured the necessary approval from the SEC.

The Astrazion Group, its operators, directors, and officers, including Napoleon dela Cruz Visperas, Remus Pedroso Salgado, Joan Ganancial, Rolando Cadelario Oso, Francisco Gadayan Baladjay, Jr., Pierre Martin D. Reyes, Esther M. Weigand, and Carol Joy Balbuena Visperas, as well as its representatives, salesmen, agents, uplines, influencers, and enablers such as Christopher “Toffy” Dimaguila, have also been ordered to cease their internet presence related to their unauthorized investment scheme.

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The companies and their directors have likewise been prohibited from transacting any business involving funds in its depository banks, and from transferring, disposing, or conveying any related assets to ensure the preservation of the assets of the investors.

The cease and desist order was issued after the SEC Enforcement and Investor Protection Department found that the Astrazion Group has been operating an online multi-level marketing platform where it actively promotes the sale of its digital currency called AZNT Token for 10 cents per token.

The group was found to be offering seven packages with guaranteed returns of 3% per day. The starter package worth $100 could yield $300 in 100 days, while the double platinum package guarantees a whopping $30,000 during the same period from an initial investment of $10,000.

The Astrazion Group enticed the public to invest by assuring members that the AZNT Tokens will be registered and listed as a cryptocurrency at Coin Market Cap, and will be traded in the digital currency trading platform Binance. The AZNT token’s value could allegedly rise to $10 from each its current price of 10 cents.

Aside from the supposed potential surge in value of the AZNT Token, the Astrazion Group also promised investors a residual income and direct referral income distribution alleging that payouts will then be released through the Coins.ph mobile app.

The scheme involves the sale and offer of securities to the public in the form of investment contracts, whereby a person invests money in a common enterprise and is led to expect profits primarily from the efforts of others, according to the SEC.

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“The Commission agrees with the EIPD’s finding, and so holds that the Astrazion Group is engaged in the sale and/or offer of securities in the form of investment contracts in violation of Section 8 of the Revised Corporation Code because it has no license to carry out the same,” the order read.

Section 8 of Republic Act No. 8799, or The Securities Regulation Code (SRC), provides that securities shall not be sold or offered for sale or distribution within the Philippines, without a registration statement duly filed with and approved by the SEC.

Astrazion Global and Astrazion Foundation are duly registered corporations with the Commission. However, they have never secured a secondary license from the Commission as issuer of securities or broker dealer nor registered any securities for public offering pursuant to the SRC.

Meanwhile, Astrazion International is not registered with the SEC as a corporation, partnership, or one person corporation.

The SEC has issued an advisory against the Astrazion Group as early as February 3, 2022, in order to warn the public against investing in the group and similar entities.

“The Commission finds that the Astrazion Group is willfully defrauding the investing public in its act of selling/offering AZNT Token and in promising a guaranteed return of 3 percent daily,” the Commission En Banc held.

“Mr. Visperas’ statement that the payouts being received by the current members of Astrazion Group is a blessing from the Lord and a foretaste of what is to come has all the more unmasked the true nature of Astrazion Group’s operations, i.e., an investment scam which the Commission is duty bound to immediately stop.”

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