Earlier this month US regulator the Commodities Futures Trading Commission ordered a man named Jon Barry Thompson to repay more than $7 million to two companies that he was accused of defrauding in scam bitcoin deals. The authority had filed civil charges against Thompson, a Pennsylvania-based man accused of defrauding two companies – one of them Irish – out of millions of dollars. The man, who also went by J. Barry Thompson or Barry Thompson in his various dealings, headed up a company called Volantis and entered into two separate deals in 2018 with two companies to purchase bitcoin on…

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