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 The “evidence” of violations provided by the SEC points to Kwon’s involvement in misleading crypto investors by creating and marketing Terra and its in-house Terra (LUNA) tokens as securities.
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 The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has refuted the jury’s conclusion regarding Terraform Labs’ alleged violations and has demanded a <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="summary" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/summary.html">summary</a> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="judgment" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/judgment.html">judgment</a> on all the claims.&nbsp;
 A court filing from Oct. 27 showed the SEC’s reluctance to accept the jury’s leniency on Do Kwon and his involvement in facilitating the frauds that eventually led to the collapse of Terraform Labs. The filing, directed to the U.S. district court - Southern District of New York, read:
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 “No rational jury could conclude that Kwon was not liable for Terraform’s violations of&nbsp;Exchange Act Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 thereunder pursuant to Exchange Act Section 20(a).”
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 The “evidence” of violations provided by the SEC points to Kwon’s involvement in misleading crypto investors by creating and marketing Terra and its in-house Terra (LUNA) tokens as securities.
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 <figcaption style="text-align: center;">SEC seeks summary judgment in Do Kwon and Terraform Labs case in NY district court. Source:&nbsp;courtlistener.com
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 On the same day, Do Kwon and Terraform Labs asked the judge to toss SEC’s lawsuit — arguing that Terra Classic (LUNC), TerraClassicUSD (USTC), Mirror Protocol (MIR) and its mirrored assets (mAssets) are not securities as the SEC alleged.
 However, the SEC maintains that Kwon and Terraform Labs offered and sold securities, sold LUNA and MIR in unregistered transactions, engaged in transactions involving mAssets and committed fraud.
 Related: Terraform co-founder Shin blames protocol for collapse during trial in S. Korea
 While Terra co-founder Daniel Shin’s lawyer blamed the “unreasonable operation of the Anchor Protocol and external attacks carried out by Do-hyung Kwon” for the Terra ecosystem collapse, the company recently blamed market maker Citadel Securities for its role in an alleged “concerted, intentional effort” to cause the depeg of its TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin in 2022.
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 <figcaption style="text-align: center;">Screenshot from filing from Terraform compelling Citadel to provide additional documents. Source: CourtListener
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 Citadel Securities told Cointelegraph in a statement: “This frivolous motion is based on false social media posts and ignores information we already provided confirming we had no role whatsoever in this matter.”
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Source: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/sec-seeks-summary-judgment-in-do-kwon-and-terraform-labs-case-tbt68909.html">https://thebittimes.com/sec-seeks-summary-judgment-in-do-kwon-and-terraform-labs-case-tbt68909.html</a>

SEC seeks summary judgment in Do Kwon and Terraform Labs case

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